On 1/2/2011 3:48 PM, willshak wrote:
zzzzzzzzzz wrote the following:
On Sat, 1 Jan 2011 10:32:44 -0800 (PST), "

wrote:

a typical overloaded system response, common around here during
weather and traffic emergencies.

the system just stalls.

imagine what will happen the next time terrorists get us bad like 9 11:
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It already happened during 9/11, and the power outages in the NE.
There were power outages in the NE on 9/11?
I do know a lot of TV stations went off the air when the second tower
collapsed since a lot of their antennas were on the roof.
I was watching CNN when it fell and CNN went off the air, but other
stations whose antennas were not on the tower still were broadcasting..


No, the cell system was on its knees from overload. Happens whenever
there is a big storm or earthquake, too. Sometimes even happens right as
some damnfool sports championship is finishing. Some PDs are moving some
of their comms to cell networks- I hope they keep their real radios,
too. (Not to mention the related issue of radio links between relay
towers being via internet, in some cases, now.)

It'd work a lot better if all the carriers shared the towers and pipes
between them. Without the need for so much duplicative hardware of
non-interoperable standards, they could afford to build in a lot more
capacity/redundancy. US is really behind how the rest of the world does
cell service, methinks.

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