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[quote=Anonymous]All of the advocates for cell phones forget that often, as is the case in CA with the fires, in Lake County for example 20% of the towers were down.  Ok, you say, 20%, that's not a lot but what if YOU are in that 20%?  Should a fire reach an onsite fuel storage for the generators, they will explode causing a bigger fire.  Mobile phones depend on cell towers. Cell towers can be compromised.  Also, should your electricity be out for longer than eight hours as is frequently the case during hurricanes and  tornadoes, how do you charge the phone?  With VOiP,once the power is out, the internet goes because the router is not powered.

Techwalla has this to say:  Cellular services depend upon antennas and base stations to connect calls from one tower to another and to other cellular and landline providers. Assuming your cell phone is fully charged, power outages can still call cause problems at cell towers, cell company switching equipment, other cell service and landline providers, and business and residential users.

Get a real landline, during the California Earthquake of 1994, the power in my neighborhood was out for 3 days but my car phone worked - intermittantly - but the  landline worked. [/quote]

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