The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has a web page that talks about the availability of telephone service during emergencies. Short of getting
an Amateur Radio license and joining SHARES[1], there are some things
anyone can do to prepare.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

The Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation and the
Department of Telecommunications and Cable urge residents to take
pre-emptive measures this National Hurricane Preparedness Week (May
7-13) to ensure readiness during emergency situations or power outages impacting their communications services.

Different services (for example, traditional wireline phone, wireless,
or VOIP provided over telephone or cable companies' networks) have
different capabilities in emergencies or power outages. If you do not
know what type of service you have, contact your provider.

Traditional Landline (Home phone, provided by a telephone company such
as Verizon or Comcast):

During a power outage, traditional landline service that runs over a
copper network will continue to operate. However, phone service over
fiber (from your cable company, or Verizon FiOS) will not, and require batteries to continue operating during an outage (see VOIP below).
Keep a traditional corded phone for outages. Without power, a cordless
phone will not work.

https://blog.mass.gov/consumer/massconsumer/stay-connected-during-emergencies/

Bill

1. For those whom are curious about SHARES and/or Amateur Radio:

https://www.cisa.gov/shares-faq
http://www.arrl.org/


--
(Please remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly)

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)