Re: Telephones Out US West Coast?

[Doug L <vssdoug@xxxxxxx>]

Not only that but radio and cellular back up is mostly for the premise
lines, not the CS lines, if the signal is delivered from the radio
tower/cellular provider by land lines to the CS then they will be
affected by the outage also. In the case of DSC/Surguard
Skyroute/connect 24 the signals are retransmitted over land lines to the
same receiver lines as the digital communicator.

Doug L

Nomen Nescio wrote:
> Crash Gordon said:
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>>NextAlarm has no backup contingency? tsk tsk.
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> All right, I'll bite:  if your local phone company (or LD provider) has a
> massive outage, how exactly do you have a backup for your digital
> receivers?  Sure, people can pay extra for radio or whatever, but what do
> you do for the people who only have a dialer if your receiver lines are
> down?
>
> - badenov
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