{"id":148,"date":"2005-07-04T22:02:09","date_gmt":"2005-07-04T21:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/04\/ntl-telephone-line-has-no-battery-backup\/"},"modified":"2009-01-25T14:53:27","modified_gmt":"2009-01-25T14:53:27","slug":"ntl-telephone-line-has-no-battery-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/04\/ntl-telephone-line-has-no-battery-backup\/","title":{"rendered":"NTL Telephone Line has no battery backup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night at 8:30pm the power went off here. When I picked up the phone to call the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitedutilities.com\" target=\"NewWindow\">electricity company<\/a>, I was surprised to find the phone was also dead.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--> Unlike <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bt.com\" target=\"NewWindow\">BT<\/a> lines which go all the way back to the telephone exchange where there is battery and generator backup in the event of a mains failure, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntlhome.com\" target=\"NewWindow\">NTL<\/a> lines only go back as far as the nearest street cabinet, where it is connected onto the fibre. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ofcom.org.uk\/static\/archive\/oftel\/publications\/ind_guidelines\/guid1002.htm\" target=\"NewWindow\">Oftel\/Ofcom requirements<\/a>, NTL a required to provide a &#8216;lifeline&#8217; service i.e. you are still able to use the phone in a power failure.<\/p>\n<p>The phone came back along with the power, at 9:45pm. Good job, it wasn&#8217;t a real emergency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night at 8:30pm the power went off here. When I picked up the phone to call the electricity company, I was surprised to find the phone was also dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[130,8,17],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ntl","tag-poor-service","tag-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}