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unknownparticle:
It seems that there are solutions then :)
There is also a fringe group, very fringe, that has developed a way to use Telex again!!  Great because I kept the Siemens T1000S telex machine that we used in our family business, I just couldn't bring myself to bin such a fantastically well engineered and made machine!  It is so long ago that I can't recall when we stopped using it. It would have been soon after low cost fax machines were introduced, so around late 80's early 90's.
The system developed by said fringe group is quite complex and requires a special coder decoder adapter. 
I loved using telex, especially the T1000S, that was the gold standard telex machine, floppy disc storage, on board crt monitor, etc, etc, and built like a tank, it's almost a 2 man lift!
Must get the adaptor and get it online!

MK14:

--- Quote from: Zero999 on November 29, 2022, 01:46:41 pm ---Landlines aren't going obsolete, just copper wire. My house is just over 4 years old and doesn't have copper, only fibre. It has a landline and I would never get rid of it, as despite being in an urban area, my mobile phone service is flaky.

--- End quote ---

But you HAVEN'T got a proper landline, by the sound of it.  Because Fibre ONLY, can't conduct electricity, so it is powered by a box of tricks, in or near your home, somewhere.  So, if there is a (local) power cut, you will lose the ability to use your 'landline'.
A real (copper based) landline, will continue to work (usually), even in an extended power cut.  Which I believe is done by a bank of 48 volt lead-acid (or more modern) batteries, at the local telephone exchanges.

So, if you or anyone in your household or nearby.  Needs urgent (999 Emergency) services, and your mobile phone connection, decides to flake out, at the wrong/worst time.  Someone/people, could have bad things happen.

These days, I seem to hear many stories, where even if someone calls 999, for an urgent ambulance, in the UK.  It doesn't arrive for ages (even days), with unfortunate results, in some cases.

Zero999:

--- Quote from: MK14 on November 29, 2022, 02:26:24 pm ---
--- Quote from: Zero999 on November 29, 2022, 01:46:41 pm ---Landlines aren't going obsolete, just copper wire. My house is just over 4 years old and doesn't have copper, only fibre. It has a landline and I would never get rid of it, as despite being in an urban area, my mobile phone service is flaky.

--- End quote ---

But you HAVEN'T got a proper landline, by the sound of it.  Because Fibre ONLY, can't conduct electricity, so it is powered by a box of tricks, in or near your home, somewhere.  So, if there is a (local) power cut, you will lose the ability to use your 'landline'.
A real (copper based) landline, will continue to work (usually), even in an extended power cut.  Which I believe is done by a bank of 48 volt lead-acid (or more modern) batteries, at the local telephone exchanges.

So, if you or anyone in your household or nearby.  Needs urgent (999 Emergency) services, and your mobile phone connection, decides to flake out, at the wrong/worst time.  Someone/people, could have bad things happen.

These days, I seem to hear many stories, where even if someone calls 999, for an urgent ambulance, in the UK.  It doesn't arrive for ages (even days), with unfortunate results, in some cases.

--- End quote ---
That's not true at all. My fibre connection has small UPS so the telephone service continues to work, during a power cut. It doesn't power the router, so the broadband will go down, but I'll still be able to make emergency calls.

MK14:

--- Quote from: Zero999 on November 29, 2022, 02:41:37 pm ---That's not true at all. My fibre connection has small UPS so the telephone service continues to work, during a power cut. It doesn't power the router, so the broadband will go down, but I'll still be able to make emergency calls.

--- End quote ---

Who's small UPS is it.  Did you do it yourself?, or does the internet/phone provider, supply the small UPS?

I've NOT heard of such a thing, in the UK.  But it sounds an interesting solution.

tom66:
BT are required to supply vulnerable customers with a UPS solution for powering the telephone during power cuts, F.O.C.  It's a £60 UPS from Amazon more or less, but it will run a <10W handset for about an hour or two.  The telephone exchange/fibre unbundlers have backup batteries within them, not sure how long these last.

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