You are not obligated to have a landline.  The goverment requires phone
service to have landline capability.  That means that it must have 99.999%
uptime and must supply its own power in the case of a power outage.  I
believe that it must maintain power for 24 hour.

Tom Veldhouse
veldy at veldy.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan" <drake at lemongecko.myip.org>
To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 3:04 PM
Subject: Re: [TCLUG] qwest


> On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 02:37:40PM -0500, Austad, Jay wrote:
> > and it's a law that you have to landline 911 service in a
> > residential home,
>
> Hmmm, I've never heard of this law. What about the Amish (I'm from rural
> Wisconsin)? I say, if the government is keen on me having a landline for
> 911 service, they can pay for it themselves... :)
>
> I too am eager to ditch my land line and just use a cellphone,
> but it's a tad bit expensive right now. But I feel your pain with respect
> to Qwest -- although I've had the good fortune to experience less of it --
> and am no fan of those doofuses.
>
> <grammar nazi>
> And what's up with misspelling words to make a "cool" name for your
> company? Dammit, it's "quest". And the word "excel" starts with an 'e',
not
> an 'x'. "Qwest", "Xcel"...it's like being on an IRC channel with a bunch
of
> k1dd13s.
> </grammar nazi>
>
> Dan
>
>
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