My phone wasnt working so I checked and apparently is nationwide and over multiple carriers. mostly people in big cities affected. Foreign attack? high level arrests? Or just a pack of joggers exercising at the local cell towers?
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Very weird that Verizon, Sprint, AT&T & T-Mobile would all experience outages at the same time all over the country.
Not really. Century link, an internet backbone provider, is having issues. All the cell providers are reliant on the internet backbone to some extent.
Sure it's not Sprint? I'm on CL and it's running fine here. Sprint has a huge trunk of net running through the KC area. We used to have to deal with that all the time in the 90s before load-balancing became more widespread.
I took out half of Texas because I put in a wrong Point Code once. The network can be totally screwed up if you provision the wrong things in.
There's no conspiracy here. One of the major internet backbone providers, CenturyLink, has shit the bed. It's the second time this year I believe.
Do regular phone calls and texts go through that too?
SMS used to go through a separate radio band. I think the cell companies have shifted that to internet now.
There's a massive global DDoS attack on US infrastructure going on RIGHT NOW.
Shit, going back to the 80’s might be a good thing.
when the power goes out for a few months, we'll be back to the 1780's
Like the 1780's but with solar panels and better guns. I'm mostly off-grid. This time of year if the grid went down I wouldn't notice unless the Internet stopped working.
lol. Serious question: have you looked into whether your panels and freezer would survive an emp or serious solar flare? One of the things that's caused me to delay more solar so far.
Solar panels and battery banks are not particularly susceptible to EMP and flares.
batteries, I would think not. Some sensitive electronics in the panels and switching gear, though. Where I live your panels have to connected to the grid through a switch, so some danger from a ground current brought in from the grid (flare, not emp)
Usually works for a couple few hours after a power outage. But any longer than that and the backup batteries will go down and you'll lose connection even if your modem has power.
It will suck for sure if it's more than a few weeks everywhere except the most rural of areas, and even there to an extent.
The sauce: https://q13fox.com/2020/06/15/t-mobile-sprint-att-and-verizon-customers-reporting-widespread-cell-service-outages/
https://www.businessinsider.com/verizon-sprint-att-t-mobile-service-down-some-areas-us-2020-6
We had a sloppy outage in PHX back in March for a day as they were starting to update switching centers to handle 5G.
Which is an utter fucking waste with the new SatNet SpaceX is putting up.
1-3 trillion dollar 5G network (US cost only) or 10-20b dollar global network that can do voice and data at the same or superior speeds with low-orbit latency that beats current dedicated privately laid fiber-optic transatlantic cables?
I'll be squirting birds baby. You can keep your fugly forest of obsolete before they're erected cellphone towers.
Seems to me as a non expert, so many companies with trouble at the same time might be a mass tower problem.
Metro PCS down all day in central FL