Telephone Networks (and alternate uses for them)

[Olefin]

I have seen old telegraph poles standing by rail lines in the North East and South - are those using analog phone lines or are they still the old telegraph lines?

So given that information Swaghauler the disruption in communications is more the disruption in satellite communications and digital phones - but analog phones would still work (as long as there werent breaks in the phone lines themselves)

that would mean that at least locally and regionally you should be able to still communicate as long as you working analog phones