To: onyx
One thing that bothers me is that the cell towers were shut down and people could not call home to tell that they were OK. My question is when were the cell towers shut down. If they were shut down quickly it would show more sophisticated security than things appeared. It looks like there was radiation monitoring but something went wrong.
352 posted on
04/18/2013 6:15:03 PM PDT by
mountainlion
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To: mountainlion
I don’t know the answer to your question. We had FReepers post that they were either at the Marathon or had friends and family members at the Marathon and all were able to communicate via cell phones!
371 posted on
04/18/2013 6:23:53 PM PDT by
onyx
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To: mountainlion
I don’t think the cell towers were shut down, I think they effectively underwent a de facto DDOS “attack” from everyone immediately trying to call in and out, such that the towers were completely overloaded.
To: mountainlion
That was false info. Verizon said they never had to shut down. Te cell systems were just clogged.
493 posted on
04/18/2013 7:27:40 PM PDT by
rwfromkansas
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To: mountainlion
Very astute.
All the cell towers were down?
If they were down before the explosions, this is huge.
591 posted on
04/18/2013 8:21:48 PM PDT by
SisterK
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