Does dial-up work during a power outage?

Question

I know that landlines stay powered during power outages, so I was wondering if dial-up would since it goes over landlines. I am going to India on vacation and I was thinking that buying a bigger battery + having dial-up would allow me to do something during those several hour blackouts (namely reading blogs).

Answer 1

yep.  As long as you are on a laptop, then yes, you can connect to the dial up during a power outage.  However, laptop modems use alot of electricity and dial up is so slow, that you wont be able to do much surfing before your battery dies.

Answer 2

as long as you can power up the computer and modem!! telco's are battery powered.

Answer 3

ya as long as you r on a labtop