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[tickmike]

One poor Derbyshire family wish he kept his hard wired 'Land Line Phone'.

He discovered a small fire in the kitchen so he got his wife out then dialed 999 on his 'Dect' phone, it was dead as the power went off    (may have been an electrical fault started the fire ! ).

No mobile signal !.    

So he thought go to his nearest neighbors in his car !, car keys in the kitchen which is on fire 

He ran to the neighbors a few miles away who called the fire crew and when they got back to his House the house and five pets could not be saved as the fire had spread so much.

So always have one Wired Land Line Phone in your house.

[Dray]

Or a mobile phone

[sevenlayermuddle]

Even in good signal area, mobile phone networks are nowhere near as reliable as land lines.   They are more vulnerable to network problems such as congestion or alternatively, the handset battery may just be flat.   And of course, sound quality is never quite as good as landline so the wrong address might be recorded.

But for me,  the issue would be more medical emergency than fire.   If I'm lying on the floor clutching my chest, and there's somebody nearby, I'd like to think they had near certainty of connecting to emergency on first attempt. 

[tickmike]

Or a mobile phone

Have you read my first post 

We also DO NOT get a mobile signal in our village.

[Dray]

Or a mobile phone

Have you read my first post 

Do you mean the edit you just made? « Last Edit: Today at 11:03:53 by tickmike »

[tonyappuk]

I was about to say the same thing as Tickmike. There is no mobile service here either!
Tony

[Dray]

It's a shame that very few DECT base stations draw their power from the phone line or have a battery back up.

Still http://www.instructables.com/id/Battery-Backup-for-Cordless-Telephone-Base-Unit/?ALLSTEPS

[tickmike]

Or a mobile phone

Have you read my first post 

Do you mean the edit you just made? « Last Edit: Today at 11:03:53 by tickmike »

I changed the colour to Red !

[Dray]

Yeah right

[sevenlayermuddle]

I was an early adopter of DECT mid-late 1990s paying well over £200 for one of the first to hit the market, model was BT divers 1010 iirc.   In these days, it was supplied with an inline battery box that you could populate with AAs for operation during outage. I think you were encouraged, maybe even required to do so, if there was no other phone that would work in power outage.

Nowadays, I almost totally dependent on DECTs with no battery backup.   But I do have one fallback... My old 1970s vintage BT 706, at least as long as pulse dialling continues to work.   

[vic0239]

I might just be ok then. 

[kitzuser87430]

What's the REN on those