We have had 4 power outages this winter.
The people with phone service through their cable company, had no phone in at least one of those outages.
Mind you, I am in a rural area.
John Ross
----- Original Message -----
From: phil at emvkeys.ca
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 12:35 PM
Subject: Re: [pianotech] voip phone lines
I'm near Toronto, Ontario. I have 2 lines (personal & business) from Vonage for under cdn$40/mo.
911 is engaged as part of the package. Current address must be registered.
As for power outages, I still have cellular. Most cellular repeater towers employ solar charged battery powered as I understand it - I may be misinformed.
As for land line stuff being reliable, poor reliability and very poor service from Bell Canada are the reasons we went to Vonage (Rogers cable, economy package). Economy was icing on the cake. We retained our old numbers. Once we decided, Vonage looked after the whole thing, even giving Bell the bad news.
So far, no complaints or service outages.
Phil
Cy Shuster wrote:
On Feb 19, 2009, at 11:19 AM, John Ross wrote:
I still prefer the landline to report an outage.
Same rational for a 911 call, they know where it is coming from.
Cell phones in my area don't have that ability.
John Ross
Oh, that's right: you're in Canada, correct? In the US, cell phones (and VOIP lines) have been required to have 911 location capability for several years now.
--Cy--
Cy Shuster, RPT
Registered Piano Technician
www.shusterpiano.com
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
No virus found in this incoming message.
Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
Version: 8.0.237 / Virus Database: 270.11.1/1961 - Release Date: 02/19/09 18:45:00
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090220/4e0f7c29/attachment.html>
This PTG archive page provided courtesy of Moy Piano Service, LLC