I haven't gotten rid of my land line for that very reason. When 9/11 happened, my land line connection to my employer's office in northern New Jersey from my home in Brooklyn was still available even though most land line long distance connections out of the lower Manhattan Verizon central office were trashed, AT&T still had long-distance lines stretching to the 201 area code from an uptown switching center. I had phone and dial-up modem access to my employer throughout the aftermath.
For office phone calls these days I mostly depend on VOIP on my employer's VPN network over my cable internet connection (Cisco Jabber software), but in a real emergency they can still reach my office extension that Is routed through to my home land line, or call directly to my land line. Peter -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Tom Brennan Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2019 4:06 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Attitude of companies toward mainframers working from home? After getting rid of the home land line maybe 10 years ago, that didn't even cross my mind. But thanks, I'll remember that as an option in case something goes haywire in the future. Right now I'm in great shape (well, the cell phone is - I could use some daily exercise). On 8/22/2019 12:53 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote: > I would consider a land line to be far more reasonable than a cell phone if I > were telecommuting. -- This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
