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- From: "Bob Larribeau" <p00136@psilink.com>
- Subject: Re: PacBell ISDN?READ/NEW/FOLLOWUP
- In-Reply-To: <1992Nov17.125318.89@indyvax.iupui.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 16:13:24 GMT
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- >DATE: 17 Nov 92 12:53:18 -0500
- >FROM: imhw400@indyvax.iupui.edu
- >
- >In article <1992Nov17.015324.13170@synseer.Syntex.COM>, billp@Syntex.COM (Bill Putney) writes:
- >[deletia]
- >> I asked about a flat rate residential ISDN and the story I get is that
- >> since an ISDN TA isn't line powered they can't offer ISDN as a residential
- >> service. The problem (they say) is that if the power was off a person
- >> couldn't call 911. This seems to me to be a very poor excuse.
- >
- >To me, too. Gee, I thought that the telcos had all heard about float-charged
- >batteries. Especially since they own millions of dollars' worth of them. A
- >simple law requiring a $5.00 battery for your $200.00 phone is not too
- >much to ask, IMHO. (Come to think of it, why don't the manufacturers put the
- >battery in the phone to begin with? It's not as though there will be *any*
- >customer who won't need one.)
- >--
- >Mark H. Wood, Lead Analyst/Programmer +1 317 274 0749 [@disclaimer@]
- >Internet: IMHW400@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU BITNET: IMHW400@INDYVAX
- >Celebrate freedom: read a banned newsgroup.
-
- According to the CCITT standards and ISDN terminal can take up to 7
- watts at 24 to 48 volts. Many ISDN phones now operate in the 2-3 watt range.
- It seems to take more than a simple battery. They only individual terminal
- battery backup system I am aware of costs around $150 list price.
-
- Bob Larribeau
- San Francisco
-