<div dir="ltr">I don't know of any houses in my circle of friends/family that have a "landline" phone that'd last past the first power outage, with portable phones being the choice du jour these days... <div>
<br></div><div>James</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 8 September 2013 21:11, Noel Butler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:noel.butler@ausics.net" target="_blank">noel.butler@ausics.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On Sun, 2013-09-08 at 13:35 +1000, Jake Anderson wrote:
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So as far as your mum is concerned yes there will be a few hours of disruption when she gets the fibre connected, and from then on the phone won't go all crackly when it rains any more and she will be set for the next 60 years or so.<br>
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or the next prolonged power outage that exceeds 4 hours, or more accurately, 4 hours in standby mode.<br>
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