One of the first things done was to shut down cell phone service in the area. So were the devices hooked up to cell phone devices? If so, maybe the plan was to set oof the devices afterwards to take out the EMT’s, etc.
Keep in mind that during the 2008 RNC in St Paul, MN, some punks were assembling remote operated incendiary devices to kill or maim police officers. The punks, known as the “RNC Eight” were praised by none other than Minnecraponus mayor RT Rybak.
Seems it wasn’t that cell phone service was shut down, it was that it promptly overloaded by so many calls. Concentrate that many people in that small a space and give them all a reason to start making calls at once, yeah the system collapses. Hysterical callers may have saved lives by swamping the cell towers.
cell phone service was never shut down.
Cell phone devices can be used to remotely detonate bombs. I suppose that by shutting down cell phone service, it would also make it difficult for the suspects to coordinate any further activities. But what this teaches them is that in the future, have a fall back plan in case the cell phones get shut off.
Everybody keeps saying this but is it really true? I mean, do we know that for sure or was there just so many calls being made that it clogged the networks?
Is there somebody in a control room somewhere on standby to do this?
In the chaos of the moment is there someone on the ground communicating back to this guy? Who gives the order?
That turned out NOT to be true.