<div dir="ltr">On 9 September 2013 10:15, Noel Butler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:noel.butler@ausics.net" target="_blank">noel.butler@ausics.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="im"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">So, your landlines die after an hour of power outage now? find that hard to believe... sniff sniff, yes, troll day appears to have come early this week..</span><br>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>To be fair, many people with cordless phones (and there are lots) would start having issues pretty quickly into a power outage. Sure, a corded phone may still work, but many people don't have them.</div>
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and as for portable, how many old folk (70/80+) run around living on their mobiles. SFA thats how many. <br>
just because the average person and their inner circles here live on the things, dont assume the rest of the population does as well.<br>
and the elderly are the MOST and highest "at risk" from this change.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>My 88yo grandmother has a mobile phone that she answers more regularly than she answers her landline (which, FYI, has a cordless phone connected to it). I'd suggest assumptions are bad no matter who's argument they're supporting. :)</div>
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