[kwlug-disc] The Empire (i.e. Bell) strikes back!

[Paul Nijjar]

On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 02:50:24PM +0000, B. S. wrote:
> 
> The (commercial) power issue is an issue regardless of the lines / provider.
> 
> People have cells. And presumably you have dedicated hot phones.
> 
> Callers seem to have amazing tolerance when you explain the power is out.
> 

> As long as your hot phone or a cell can get to the auto-attendant to
> explain you have a power outage, you should be good. Having
> Execulink have you on hot switch lines is useful too. (I may have
> the term wrong there - a prearranged ability to switch your lines to
> alternates, if only to an alternate auto-attendant where you can
> explain the power issue.)

Not to turn this into a giant thread, but the main issue has to do
with emergency calls from our apartments. We cannot rely on residents
having cellphones, and if there is an outage (or some other emergency)
then they need to contact our housing staff. That is why we make sure
we have at least one POTS line per building, and that our phone
systems have some ability to fail over to those POTS lines. But I do
not think we will ever want to go all VoIP. 

I agree that for office use having the phone system go out is less of
a crisis. 

- Paul 


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