When 9/11 happened, cell service in the Northeast crashed anyway. It was so overloaded that your chance of getting a call to connect was about 1% or less. I assume this would be done so at least SOMEONE could communicate.
They’ve had 16+ years to fix that.
the switches were in the towers they got trashed. I helped replaced these switches so I know.
on 9/11 texts functioned fine
Let’s put it this way....you “thought” it crashed, and they probably announced that it “crashed”, but in reality they shed unessential loads.
Nope, it failed for everybody. All the priority systems failed, as well.