Mark Lloyd writes:


I remember seeing the Central Office in Ft. Worth, with a lot
of big batteries (they said some of the batteries were from old
submarines). The batteries were supposed to be able to power
everything for at least 24 hours, with generators for longer
outages.

CO's are still around; it's just the switches in them are far smaller.
And they still have generators. And fuel. In the derecho in July,
the CO down the road was on generator for several days.

For whatever reason, FIOS always runs to a CO, not to a DLC in
the neighberhood.

You can't be forced to have FIOS for dialtone in any case I have
seen; as FIOS is not regulated. An obvious example: where there
is no AC power such as a building site. And while it is true the
DLC has only hours of batteries, the telco has an obligation to
keep it powered.

As for the ""too big a battery fable..."; it's not worth debunking
again.


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