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Landlines are not ceasing in the foreseeable future. Only the landline PSTN phone service. VOIP and broadband from any provider will still work over landlines.

Indeed, but the question of what happens with no electricity has not been answered as far as I know, and the only answer I know is mobile. Do you have an up-to-date policy on UPS provision?

As to my question about mobile coverage?

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but the question of what happens with no electricity has not been answered as far as I know, and the only answer I know is mobile. Do you have an up-to-date policy on UPS provision?

You could ask the same about what happens to your TV, washing machine and every other product in your house when the lights go out, those that are proactive with make provisions to power the lights (and the ONT and router) by other means as we can't always expect others to be responsible for these sorts of things.

As to my question about mobile coverage?

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Indeed, but the question of what happens with no electricity has not been answered as far as I know, and the only answer I know is mobile. Do you have an up-to-date policy on UPS provision?

As to my question about mobile coverage?

I would not be overconfident about mobile as the get-out clause. Most mobile masts are built with limited battery back-up and will go down within a few hours of an outage so if you are in the sort of rural area that has outages lasting 12 or more hours while the electricity network teams mobilise and fix the cause then you are likely to lose mobile signal before the power is restored.

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As to my question about mobile coverage?

Sorry I thought below was your latest question.

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the question of what happens with no electricity

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As to my question about mobile coverage?

In my fairly urban built up town when we had a longer term power cut in 2017 (about 6 hours) the mobile masts of Three, EE, Vodafone and O2 all stopped working. Virgin Media connections stopped working, and only ADSL and VDSL/FTTC worked.

The UK isn't the only country ending exchange provided voice and volts, most of Europe is doing similar.

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The UK isn't the only country ending exchange provided voice and volts, most of Europe is doing similar.

Seems people in other countries are better at adapting than we are. Do you know if other countries have larger battery stores next to every mast allowing them to run for longer.

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Seems people in other countries are better at adapting than we are. Do you know if other countries have larger battery stores next to every mast allowing them to run for longer.

I don't, it may not be easy to find out either.