This is closely related to key topic in Toronto over the past couple weeks.
A lot of people have only just discovered that although their VOIP phone might work as well as classic over copper phone, and it might save them a chunk of money each month, it does not fail the same way the classic copper pair does. With your VOIP home phone, you have somewhere between one and five hours after the power goes away, and then it goes away. If you have a cellphone, that might be an alternative, but only if the people calling you know to use it.
I have always been reluctant to part with my copper line, because that resiliency is really hard to replicate with the digital technologies. I’m with Cory on this one, but in a different direction – if you really can’t accept the way a new technology fails, then you have to be tough on yourself and not go there.
