Re: Grand Apagon - Electricity (not) in Spain

On 2025-05-06 11:25, Martin Brown wrote:

Amazingly fibre to premises can still work OK in a power cut since that is actually powered off the reserve supply back at the main exchange.
Advantages of having a UPS at home.

Here there are boxes on the walls of the city blocks, where one fibre from the exchange is divided into half a dozen (exact number unknown to me). I don't know if these boxes are passive or active.
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<https://www.change.org/p/movistar-cambien-cto-caja-donde-se-conecta-la-fibra-optica-para-poder-realizar-mis-estudios>
I could not test if my landline phone worked during the outage because my local UPS went down too soon.
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Cheers, Carlos.