Living in an area that is both prone to bushfires (3 in the last 10 years) and has no mobile coverage, most people keep a wired phone handy for when the power goes.<div><br></div><div>mgh<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Adrian Chadd <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:adrian@creative.net.au">adrian@creative.net.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Thu, Sep 17, 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote:<br>
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> > and their continued support shouldn't be drop-dead mandated as a<br>
> > requirement for the new network.<br>
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> Battery backed equipment could be supplied to those customers which<br>
> require it (ie medical need). I imagine the number of such users is<br>
> only be a small percentage of the population.<br>
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</div>Good thing most of us haven't really been through a disaster that<br>
really required a functional telecommunications network in a pinch, eh? :)<br>
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