"Steve Walker" wrote in message
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On 03/08/2018 01:00, Rod Speed wrote:


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


"Steve Walker" wrote in message
news 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.

Yes, because it has been a requirement for phones to still work when the
mains power fails. Which is the whole point of what I have been saying
from the start! The exchange has large batteries and an auto-start
generator to maintain the system - fibre cannot power the phone in
someone's house!

Doesnt need to when the modem router has a backup
battery that allows the router to continue to provide
the voip service when the main power is out.

And it makes no sense whatever to continue to have to maintain
the entire copper network and all the exchanges just so those who
cant move around after that sort of very rare event can whistle up a
chopper because they have been too stupid to ensure that they
can manage to survive until someone ploughs the roads.

And even if you do want to allow those that stupid to survive,
it makes a hell of a lot more sense to ensure that the mobile
bases in those very unusual areas do have proper backup batterys.

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 as I have said earlier, many mobile base stations are NOT battery
backed.

Those in areas like that should be.

Even if they are, there are many blackspots with no signal.

Areas that can be snowed in for a week should obviously
have a mobile base there. Lot cheaper to do that than to
keep the entire country's dinosaur copper network and all
the exchanges working forever for that sort of emergency.

And its trivial to chopper in a COW there too.

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.

It's rapidly going to do that with no heating at all,

Trivial to ensure that you have a gas tank that will
allow heating until the roads are cleared again.

water pipes frozen, etc.

See above.

Many people die pretty rapidly in such situations.

Only the fools too stupid to go to bed and too stupid
to have a tank of gas to run the heater until the road is
cleared again.