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Re: home router battery backup


From: Dave Taht <dave.taht () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 08:04:58 -0800

Has this xkcd gone by yet?

https://xkcd.com/705/

I would actually like a study of how network "glitches" and outages
affect more normal humanity. I did - and it took years to relax this
much - finally get
to the point to when the power went out, I'd take a walk, find a book,
or do something other than stress about the thing I was doing that was
interrupted
when the lights went out. I tend to think that with internet addiction
on the rise for the general public that they are becoming more like us
in this respect,
and that's not a good thing.

On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 10:03 AM Scott T Anderson via NANOG
<nanog () nanog org> wrote:

Hi NANOG mailing list,



I am a graduate student, currently conducting research on how power outages affect home Internet users. I know that 
the FCC has a regulation since 2015 (47 CFR Section 9.20) requiring ISPs to provide an option to voice customers to 
purchase a battery backup for emergency voice services during power outages. As this is only an option and only 
applies to customers who subscribe to voice services, I was wondering if anyone had any insights on the prevalence of 
battery backup for home modem/routers? I.e., what percentage of home users actually install a battery backup in their 
home modem/router or use an external UPS?



Thanks.

Scott



Reference for 47 CFR Section 9.20: 
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/chapter-I/subchapter-A/part-9/subpart-H/section-9.20





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