On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Richard S. Smoot wrote:
> > I suspect, however, that the UPS offering might be a way to protect
> > their cabling and so on from power spikes through home users' machines
> > when thunderstorms come through, rather than having anything to do
> > with wanting to protect the home users' computers themselves.
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > The UPS is probably there to give some normal phone functionality
>
> in that it can run for a while when you lose power. There may be a
> statutory requirement for this, since Verizon was set up as a monopoly.
> Normal phones all run off the phone line supplied 48VDC.
Sure, but some phones with extra features (many stored numbers, hold,
speaker phone) have power bricks. Mine does. Maybe it's poorly designed.
Cordless phones do also.
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