[LINK] Detailed analysis of NBN Co’s finances s hows FTTP better value than FTTN

[JanW]

At 03:38 PM 8/01/2016, Frank O'Connor you wrote:
>5. Batteries at the consumer end to provide back-up power to the copper and HFC connections. Personally I think they could do away with these and simply let consumers rely on mobiles, but I suppose a sizeable proportion of the public still doesn’t have cell phones, or may not live close to a tower, and I don’t know anything about the node design or circuitry which allows for back-ending line based phone calls, so I guess it may still need to be offered as an option. 

This may be a stupid question, but hey, I'm going to ask it so you all can have a laugh.

Let's examine the reason the back-up battery is needed. To operate the phone, right, when the NBN goes out? Which at the moment takes its power from the copper we have now, but won't when we switch to NBN, otherwise it would all still work. So the power goes off. We need a phone for emergencies. If the power is off in the area, what is this phone going to operate across? Aren't those systems also going to be off? We're told we won't have copper PSTN any more, just the NBN. But it needs power to operate. 

What am I missing in this picture?

Jan


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