35 miles is forever in cellular terms, large LTE cells radius is 1 to 3km and small cells from .3 to 1km. Butler has a population of 13,000 and those two cellular towers you see on the Farm Show grounds are AT&T and Verizon that serve that area. That’s it. No wonder they were saturated during an event where thousands of phones were in use.
Check for yourself: https://www.cellmapper.net
That being the case they should NOT have been the system for LEO communication. Shortwave LE radio with dedicated comm towers, encrypted. Were these employed? Needs thorough investigation, not take the word of freaking Verizon/ATT whose mapping must be a joke.
The crowd was 15,000 the town 13k-—28K and how many phones in use- they have the data. Subpoena them.
Here’s a clip from FNC that says the countersnipers were using “text messaging without wi-fi”...which is to say, in a saturated cell those messages weren’t being sent promptly if at all.
Lots more whistleblower comments via Josh Hawley about the incompetent site agent (female) who dropped the ball on many fronts. This person is still on the job, still doing security for political events.
If they don't have enough phones that get priority on the packet routing to distribute to key staff, then they need to bring the satellite phone link with them.
Guess they don't want to pay for Starlink since X Man Bad, like Orange Man Bad.
40,000+ people overloaded the two towers present. At&t has its Firstnet service that is specifically for first responders and LEO of any stripes. Firstnet gives priority realtime access to the network for any authorized user on dedicated frequency bands so normal users don’t overload it. Why SS and the local LEO were not using Firstnet is another question that needs to be answered. Iridium satphone also has a dedicated LEO and military priority service. Here again you only need a dozen or so phones hand them out to watch commanders. Then there is the military MOUS handheld comms that is priority ,encrypted and redundant with zero civilian access or interference. A couple of singars and the modems to each watch center would link them all tougher using military grade comms. Fail,fail and more fail.
Who f’ing cares. Someone could have simply walked to the stage and personally told the SS well before the shooting. This is not about incompetence and stupidity, that’s a ruse. Security was lax on purpose.