Power and Phones

The SST has a story about how Telecom’s new IP based next generation network will require power to the gateway in each house, with fears that in a power cut one can’t call 111.

It is an issue, but not at all a show stopper.  For a start the number of households without at least one cellphone must be miniscule.  In fact I suspect there are more households without landlines than there are without cellphones.