"Steve Walker" wrote in message
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On 02/08/2018 23:25, Rod Speed wrote:


"Steve Walker" wrote in message
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On 02/08/2018 20:22, Theo wrote:
Steve Walker wrote:
Assuming that both the VOIP phone and router need to be powered to
make
calls, how are they getting around this? Especially when a severe
weather event could take power out to isolated houses or whole
villages
for days, in conditions where the residents can't travel to get help.

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultatio...ions-power-cut
summary
https://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/...gency-services


They seem to be proposing 1 hour backup, but only for those with
pre-exisiting risk due to health problems. That won't be of much use to
someone with a health problem who wakes up one morning and finds that
the power went off 5 hours ago; or for the able bodied who similarly
find that power has been off for some time and they are isolated due to
deep snow - as happened to many people recently!

Sure, but the later dont need to call anyone because
there is nothing anyone can do about that.

It was bad enough that army helicopters were dropping supplies -

So those they dropped the supplys to could
obviously communicate the need for those.

that's not going to happen if no-one knows that they are stuck there
without power

If you're in that situation, you obviously need a mobile

and quite possibly without heating because of it.

In that case you can obviously get real radical and
go to bed if its cold enough to be a health problem.