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Originally Posted by rhyds
Last time we had a major storm in my area some parts of the village lost power for 3 days, and the local mobile mast was off for a day at least.
Landline phones and internet were fine however.
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You mentioned you're in a village. So I assume you're on the Openreach network?
Every telephone exchange (apart from the tiny shed style ones) has oil powered generators inside. In the event of a power cut they spring into action and that's why you don't lose your landline service. That's assuming the exchange is in the same part of the grid as you are. If it isn't and the exchange still has mains power you also wouldn't lose your phone service.
Indeed your broadband (even FTTC for a while as the cabinets have batteries) would continue to work too, though of course you couldn't power the router from the house!