Considerations for Life line and Backup Telephone Service with VOIP

VOIP telephone service provides a high performance and low cost for long distance telephone users.  VOIP is being offered as a package with cable television operators for a small incremental cost. Many folks arrange and connect their cable TV and telephone way before they deal with land-line (PSTN) traditional wired telephone.  Others never have a land-line connected to there dwelling.

A wired traditional telephone line (PSTN) is an important consideration for your total communications needs.  When contemplation situations that may arise and the contingency and backup plans; one should consider establishing.

While a cable is physically a secure connection the interaction and complexity of the entirety of the cable, Internet, an now VOIP service all residing onto the single cable into your house; leaves a failure of any part of the that connection a 100% loss of every service and vital communications.  This is especially true during bad weather, and for dwelling where people must have a nearly 100% communication ability. 

The 100% loss of service and vital communications can occur for a variety of reasons:

1) Power failure (either your dwelling or the local power grid)
2) Modem Failure
3) USB & Computer failure
4) Service provider server failure/outage/maintenance

By contrast the public switched telephone network (PSTN) is extremely simple and trouble free.  The PSTN is powered independently from the power grid and your home. This addresses the most common failure modes.  The equipment used to communicate on the PSTN network is also simple and trouble free.  The PSTN telephone system is a simple and reliable network!

By arranging for PSTN and VOIP service to a dwelling or site, you can ensure communications during critical times and as a back-up to keep operations running independent of the a cable and internet service provider, as well as a power grid failure.

Using a self- powered, non-USB, computer free VOIP and PSTN adapter to combine-a-line to your single line handset; extends the reliability of the entire communications system.  The Combine-a-line product joins VOIP and PSTN to provide the best level of reliability by avoiding grid power and USB (computer) support.