On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Bob Schwier <schwepes2...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I'll miss copper because it continued to serve in a black out. Without power > there is no fiber optic.
That's what battery powered cell phones are for. I was around when the major blackout hit the NE. The fact that what is now Verizon supplied its own power over phone lines meant the phone system worked and permitted me to stay in touch with with my employer, because I was the guy who would have to go to the office I worked out of to bring things back up once power was restored to the area where it was located. But with a blackout covering the NE, the phone was pretty much the *only* thing that worked. Same difference as we transition to fiber. Cell phones will still work as long as the batteries last. If the blackout lasts long enough that everyone's phone dies, you have much larger problems than whether you can surf the web. > bs ______ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
