View Single Post
  #12  
Old 08-28-2011, 12:27 PM
spdrun spdrun is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: May 2011
Location: NYC
Posts: 6,030
Quote:
Originally Posted by sfloriII View Post
We have Fios and are happy with it for TV, internet and phone. But I'm pretty sure the "landline" is not actually fully a landline. If we lose power, the phone works only as long as the Verizon battery in the garage stays charged.
There were plenty of landlines that required batteries in the house -- "common battery" systems, where the batteries were only in the phone central office, were only fully implemented in the 1960s.
Reply With Quote