With Voicewing you can call 911, you just have to register it when you sign 
up so they have your address, and as far as losing the phone when you lose 
power, that's true but you can set it to automatically forward the calls to 
your cell phone or what ever if you lose power. Since it works over the 
internet, you can't really get around that unless you put a backup battery 
on your internet stuff, router, cable modem, and the phone adapter, but 
personally, with my 12 calls a year, I don't miss anything by not having it 
for an hour or 2. The important people that might call in an emergency have 
my cell number anyway so for me, it works fine. I'm sure if you put a UPS or 
something on the cable modem or dsl, router, and phone adapter only, it 
would last through most power outages easy but mine is not worth that. If I 
lived on my own and that was my only phone, I'd do it but as often as we 
lose power too around here, we probably lost standard phone more. I think 
we've lost power here twice in the last 4 years and it was all less than an 
hour.Mostly at night.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harvey" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 1:57 PM
Subject: Re: very off topic


>I have been told that a disadvantage to Vontage and other services like it
> is that you can't call 911 using that service, and also, when you lose
> electricity, you also lose your phone service.  Maybe these drawbacks have
> now been corrected I don't know.
> Harvey
>