Eli5: how does a cord landline work when the power is out?

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Like the phones that have a special plug and everything, the cord one still work when the electricity is out and they don’t seem to have batteries in there, so how and why do they still work

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Canada here: we moved last year and experienced exactly this when a strong storm knocked out power for half the day yesterday. Our landline runs through our ISP’s modem, and we had no signal. The mobile networks were spotty at best; calls were choppy, texts barely went though, and data was non-existent unless you sent a km or two away

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