Internet service and power outages?

[Grant M.]

Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> Now, DSL is phone-line offered.   If the central office has its own 
> power source, and I have mine, if power did go out, I should still have 
> uninterrupted Internet service unless/until my UPS dies.   Yes or no?

Just a couple of notes:
    1.> I received a recent notification that after 3 or 4 years, the 
"Special" DSL rate that I had been receiving from Verizon on bundled DSL 
no longer will be offered. I assume that this is due to the FIOS 
roll-out in my area, which started around March. I'm guessing that the 
adoption was less than expected, and they had to do something to try and 
push it.
    2.> FIOS uses onsite UPS's - that means that if you get bundled 
phone, Digital TV, and high-speed, then Verizon installs a UPS at your 
house. I do not know what the backup time is for the unit that they install.
    3.> The thing that bothers me the most about bundled-FIOS adoption 
is that they physically remove your hard-line phone during the install. 
That means once you go FIOS, there is no going back. I suspect that this 
is to avoid customers reverting during the growing pains of FIOS, likely 
by charging some insane sum of money to replace the old hard-line (if 
they will at all).
Grant M.
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