Does Comcast Phone Work Power Outage

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Answer #1: Posted by freginold on May 2nd, 2014 6:23 AM

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Hi, if you have VoIP phone service (through your Comcast phone modem) then your phone will not work in a power outage, unless you have it hooked up to some sort of backup power supply.

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