Right. That's what their webpage says and I guess I took Frank to be saying that, when he said "they have" he meant they have it if I buy it.
$40 plus the cost of 12 alkaline D-cells and the batteries go dead whether you use them or not. I don't know how long it takes if you dont' use them, and if you do turn the thing on, they say 24 hours of talking iiuc but don't say how much just being on uses them.
I have occasstional outages, most for just a minute or two. Fios will tell me the number of anyone who called me -- or will it say Out of Range, like it often does with *69, even when it's in the same area code and it's a normal person, not a thief or spoofer.
But assuming it gets the right number, won't the screen go blank during a power failure so I still won't be abel to call them. Maybe they'll call me but not if they think I hung up on them, and if so, they'll do it before I can get to the basement and turn on the batteries. They'll try once or twice and stop trying. Now that the battery is on, maybe I can get their numer off of the display, but by that time 5 minutes will have gone by.
I've only had one 3-day outage, in the fall or winter no less, and by the third day I had started calling people looking for a place to stay, but they all had their power out too. When I was getting very cold, the power came on. I guess the batteries would work through that if they weren't almost dead, and I'd probabl remember to turn them off when the power went back on, except I'd wait to see if went off again, and then forget.
And I've had a few that last an hour or two.
How come there aren't more complaints about Fios?
I have a cell phone, but I don't give many people the number,
What does it seem like to a caller when my power is out, that no one answers, a busy signal, or a recording that my power is out. Only the third would prompt someone to call me on the cell.
If they're going to say I should just use my cell all the time, then why do I need FIOS phone at all?