A bit of FUD (Fear, uncertainty and doubt) about VoIP, or perhaps an effort to tout BPL leads to this interesting conclusion from C-Net.
What's wrong with this picture?
"Also, there's still no way to guarantee VoIP phones will work when power is lost, and not all VoIP providers offer 911 service."
During a power outage, a VoIP phone is only as good as any battery backups on hand, because delivering power through the broadband connection isn't possible on a wide commercial basis. An emerging alternative broadband-delivery technique, broadband over power line, will solve this problem, but wide deployment is years away."
Full story: http://tinyurl.com/5md7h or
http://news.com.com/The+price+of+VoIP%27s+thriftiness/2100-7352_3-5273275.ht...
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