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Old 1st Dec 2021, 2:35 pm   #21
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The fiber modem installed here by Openreach has battery backup (re-chargeable ones)

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Mine does not

Are you on a commercial service or domestic?

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The fiber modem installed here by Openreach has battery backup (re-chargeable ones)

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Mine does not

Are you on a commercial service or domestic?

Fred
Domestic.

The battery backup unit installed here looks like the one in here:

https://www.premierenergy.co.uk/wp-c...-Factsheet.pdf

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Old 1st Dec 2021, 6:42 pm   #23
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Through the post yesterday a poor substitute for Yellow Pages, a bit bigger than A5 and 5/16th thick. Lots of businesses, very small type. I am not even going to bother tearing it in half.
I've not had deliveries of either Yellowed Pages or The Phone Book for quite some time; and not missed them.

The other directories like Thomsons and Dentons were amusing to leaf through and see the number of businesses still listed which you know had ceased trading a few years back.

I guess the salespeople for these directories were good at getting a business to pay upfront for a 5-year listing...
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My latest Phone Book (Carlisle & North Cumbria) is dated 2021/2022. My Yellow Pages (same area) appears to be dated (very discreetly) 2017 and is boldly marked "Final Edition".
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Old 1st Dec 2021, 8:40 pm   #25
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Thanks, we have been short changed then. The install was August 2020 and they only installed the ONT. The same one in the linked pages

I am more concerned about somehow backing up our central heating pump than the internet connection! We have a tank of gas but need electric to pump the heating around

Small genny on my horizon I think

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The fiber modem installed here by Openreach has battery backup (re-chargeable ones)

Lawrence.
Mine does not

Are you on a commercial service or domestic?

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Domestic.

The battery backup unit installed here looks like the one in here:

https://www.premierenergy.co.uk/wp-c...-Factsheet.pdf

Lawrence.
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I think ours was installed about 3 maybe 4 years ago now, the battery backup unit definitely kicks in during power cuts (we've had plenty)

I don't have an internet 'phone.

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Fred, AIUI the battery back-up is primarily for maintaining the VoIP phone line, so you don't normally get a BBU if the copper exchange line is retained, or you forgo the line completely (which doesn't stop you rolling your own VoIP)

Lawrence & Fred, how does the phone line work in your respective installations?
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Only 'phone here is a copper landline phone, the FTTP installation was installed with a BBU, they didn't install any 'phone socket when they did the FTTP installation.

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Let's not let this thread drift off into the pros and cons of various niche connectivity-provisions for equally-niche home generation systems.

To bring it back on topic: are any of you still listed in "the Phone Book"?
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o bring it back on topic: are any of you still listed in "the Phone Book"?
Yes I am. As is usual, I'm the only Moll.
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Fred, AIUI the battery back-up is primarily for maintaining the VoIP phone line, so you don't normally get a BBU if the copper exchange line is retained, or you forgo the line completely (which doesn't stop you rolling your own VoIP)

Lawrence & Fred, how does the phone line work in your respective installations?
I am on VOIP via the BT wifi box

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Let's not let this thread drift off into the pros and cons of various niche connectivity-provisions for equally-niche home generation systems.

To bring it back on topic: are any of you still listed in "the Phone Book"?
I have no idea as I cannot remember receiving a new phone book for several years, at least 6

The number should be ex-directory

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Not specifically the *BT* phone-book, but I remember in the 60s my parents had a phone-number book-device that was a brown enamelled metal clamshell-type thing which had a slider along the right side with a window through which the letters of the alphabet could be selected; you then pressed a button and the clamshell lid popped-up to reveal a card with the phone-numners for people whose name began with the selected letter.

They kept this until the early-1970s when we moved from 4-digit to 6-digit numbers and they discovered that replacement cards for the thing were no longer available.
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My Great Aunt had one of those pop up address books into the 1990s, & possibly later.
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The last phone book I have here is 2016/17, I assume they have stopped supplying the paper ones. That one is incredibly thin. If I need phone numbers I use the BT online version.

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Another Phone Book thought: When in the 1980s we had the opportunity to buy our phone service from Mercury rather than thr GPO/BT, was there ever a printed Mercury phone-book?

And if it existed, was there a way to get your Mercury number listed in the BT phone-book or vice-versa/
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I don't think there was a specific Mercury phone book (I never saw one).

I had Mercury phone service for a few years in the '90s. The way it worked here is that you still had to have a BT phone line. You paid line rental to BT and your number appeared in the BT phone book (unless you asked for it to be ex-directory). On top of that, you paid a quarterly fee to Mercury to access their network. In return, Mercury supplied a PIN code which you stored in the Mercury memory button on your phone. When you wanted to make a call via Mercury, you picked up the phone connected to your BT line, then pressed the Mercury button which dialled 131+PIN. This connected you to the Mercury network via your BT line. Then you dialed the wanted phone number. The call was then billed by Mercury instead of BT.

In the late 90s I got a ComTel cable phone line installed at my parents' house, mainly for use with dial-up internet. The old Mercury 131+PIN access code did not work from cable phones, but cable phone calls were cheaper anyway. Local calls to other cable customers were free, and I eventually obtained a dial-up internet number that was free too - happy days!!

Both my cable phone number and my parents' BT phone number were listed in the BT phone book, and when a new phone book was published we received 2 copies, one for each line at the house. The BT phone book stated at the time that it included numbers from other telecommunications providers.
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