CW wrote:
"Doug Winterburn" wrote in message
eb.com...
We
solved the phone bill taxes and fees with Vonage for a landline and
TracFones for cell usage. May even drop the landline as we only use
about $10 month apiece for TracFone and Vonage runs $17 or so a month.

You do realize that with a phone system like that, during any kind of
disaster situation you will be cut off with no communication, right? The
Vonage is iffy. The cell phone is guaranteed useless.

As a guy who has been in telecommunications for a lot of years - disasters
are disasters. Phone systems are subject to them as well. One would be
foolish to think that an analog or digital phone system is immune to, or
even somehow more reliable in a disaster.

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-Mike-