• brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 hours ago

    Benefit of pots is it doesn’t go out when the Internet does (unless your provider has a VOIP backend, but usually those would be more robust than your home.)

    It also is a second source of electricity coming into the house should there be a power outage.

    I kind of wish I could have an old school pots line, even though I run my own VOIP system.

    • dhork@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      All those benefits mattered a lot more before everyone had a phone in their pocket. A power outage that takes out cell towers is also likely to take out the Telco central office.