I am on a Fiber Connection. Can I still use my phone if the power is out?

Yes, To avoid a disruption of home voice service during an outage – and to maintain the ability to connect to 911 emergency services – Mid-Rivers as your local Cooperative offers and maintains backup power for your home phones at no additional charge. Backup batteries are installed and maintained by Mid-Rivers as part of our standard voice service installation.

Mid-Rivers’ backup batteries allow you to continue to use your home voice services on a corded landline phone during a power outage.

Our backup battery does not provide power to any services other than voice. The backup battery powers the wall jacks that provide voice service. The backup battery does NOT power any other devices that may be connected to those jacks such as cordless phones, home security systems, medical monitoring devices and other equipment.

The backup battery should give you about eight (8) hours of emergency standby voice service. If you use your voice service sparingly during a power outage, the battery should last on standby power for longer than eight hours. Larger batteries capable of up to 24 hours of emergency standby can be purchased from Mid-Rivers upon request.

Read more about home phone service during power outages here.