On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 20:57:08 GMT, Harry Bloomfield wrote:

What is the likelihood of your house catching fire, the dect phone
failing as a result of the fire and the local cell also failing all at
exactly the same time as you need to ring the fire brigade?

Not particularly high, just pointing out that mobiles etc are not to be
relied upon in an emergency. Many people think of a phone as a phone and
do not realise that a mobile is no where near as reliable as a POTS phone
when the infrastructure comes under stress.

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Dave. pam is missing e-mail