"Chet Hayes" wrote in message



There is the power outage issue.
There is the issue of having to install a box that goes between your
phone lines and the cable and one more piece of eqpt to go bad or to
figure who's going to come fix it and for how much.

That is a big issue. When power goes out, you usually still have phone
service. It does not depend on just one wire from your house to the cable
company. Phone lines can route themselves around trouble spots. My phone is
much more reliable than my cable.