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Old 10-23-2015, 02:42 AM   #15
limey
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Originally Posted by Undertoad View Post
FIOS/other new phone service powers old style phones from a battery on your premises. This power used to come from batteries at the central phone office. You can power your wireless phones during outages by connecting a UPS (i.e., a battery) to the base station.

Around here Verizon wants you to pay to replace your battery when it dies. The price is about the same price as a UPS...
We use the UPS to keep the Internet going. Satellite router and WiFi router.

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