No POTS line here.  New office is all VoIP, too.  For my own use, though, I'm 
sticking with cell.  Don't recall the last time that there was an outage to the 
point where I couldn't make a voice call in the past few years (though I've 
seen EVDO data go down for my region and have had to fall back to 1xRTT for an 
hour or once in the past couple years).

Naturally, that doesn't really disprove a negative, but the chances of there 
being, all at the same time:

- a sufficiently localized disaster where I'd have to call 911, and
- a sufficiently broad disaster where the cell infrastructure had completely 
failed for all the CDMA carriers in my area, and
- nobody near by who could help or had a landline, and
- despite said broad disaster taking out *ALL* CDMA cell networks within range, 
a condition that still permitted landlines to operate

...seem to be quite vanishing to me.  Not impossible, but there's a whole lot 
more likely concerns to deal with than that, nowadays.  The only likely types 
of situations that might result in that, in general, would probably be things 
like wide-area hurricane-style events.  Those typically provide enough advance 
warning to get out of harm's way.  (Not that I would have to worry about 
hurricanes in the middle of the continental US, anyway.)

- S

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Marlatt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 11:07 AM
To: Paul Stewart; nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Telecom Collapse?

Paul Stewart wrote:
> 
> There's at least two cell phones in our house whenever the family is
> home and I have neighbors within quick walking distance.
> 

That's assuming they're not doing the same thing you are, are home, or
are willing to let you borrow their phone. You're assuming a lot. I find
it surprising that many people replying haven't kept a 911 only POTS line.

Regards,

        Chris


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