Just put the whole setup (router, VoIP box, telephone base station) on a UPS. There's no difference between that and Cox telephone. Zero. A $50 UPS doesn't justify Cox's $28/month for dial tone and the caller ID gimmick on the cable box..
The Veteran's Cemetery proposal looks like nothing more than Councilmember Larry Agran creating a smokescreen and jamming Five Points as payback for the last Great Park re-shuffle.
He needs a smokescreen (Wag the Dog style) because the wagons are being circled around him for corruption; even...