choppy -“Health: Phone lines get their power from the phone company, not directly from the buildings electric company. And in all power outages I’ve had, the phones continued working. Including the big outages that cut electric power to the entire city and region. The phone continued working.”
And where did I say differently? If the electricity is cut to the main phone station relay area, then you’ll lose phone service.
Btw, just like you don’t usually lose phone service, you don’t lose cell service. The phone company supplies it’s own power to the cell towers.