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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I have not seen a POTS line in probably 20 years. Do they still install them? I guess they exist some places. I can only imagine the tel cos have about -100% interest in keeping this around.

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