In the event of a natural disaster, landline copper can be powered indefinitely via batteries and a backup generator from the central office (CO). As a previous member of the provincial PEP (Provincial Emergency Preparedness) team, I take this very seriously.
With fibre, you don't have that luxury. If you're lucky and your residential TELUS ONT unit has backup power, it's usually good for a few hours but if there's an extended outage, you essentially have no landline. Too bad for you.
We had a fibre drop on our home for years that went unused for this very reason. Every sales agent I spoke to in that time was taken aback by my arguing for keeping the copper landline and none of them had considered my line of reasoning.
And, news today, that TELUS will be transitioning our community entirely over to fibre. I understand the cost savings, but I believe they're being very short-sighted. I wonder if the CRTC is on board with this move.
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