Typical pseudo-techie response. "Just throw money at it". Most people don't want to spend more money on a service that they have already paid for, the burden of uptime should be on the provider and not on the user. Oh and let's say that you have a UPS. Is it the only device on the UPS? Probably not. Bye-bye phone when the battery dies. "Hello...EMS? Yeah, I've got chest pains and....hello....HELLO??" OMG!! I haven't serviced my UPS battery in two years and the battery life is one minute!" Read my post about cell phones, lots of people in NYC had dead cells when the WTC went down.