It always astonishes me that there are people who claim to live in areas plagued by power outages and therefore PSTN is essential in that it maintains the ability to call the emergency services during these frequent power cuts, because there is a high likelihood of two things coinciding, the power cut and the need for emergency assistance, but seemingly have no worry about living rurally (thats the only logical conclusion if they have frequent power cuts and no mobile service and an hour battery backup isn’t enough) that the much longer wait in this location for an ambulance or other emergency response is a manageable risk ( basically they would also need to hold the view ‘I’m not moving to a more urban area just because the wait for an ambulance is longer here where I live ) but the change from PSTN to DV is life endangering and this longer wait for emergency services isn’t , it really beggars belief the mental gymnastics on display , the ‘ I demand a phone service that works during a power cuts because I’m high risk’ while simultaneously maintaining ‘ the ambulance taking 5 times longer to arrive than compared to a rural area isn’t sufficiently risky to warrant moving home from this remote location’ , if the risk is too great for PSTN removal but waiting an hour for an ambulance isn’t a risk at all , then these people ‘risk’ being labelled as nothing more than a Luddite.
If vulnerable and on DV and in a area prone to power outages, get a battery back up , if this isn’t good enough , consider moving to an area , like 99% of the country that doesn’t have a power outages , or are so rare as to be statistically insignificant
