Posted on 09/29/2022 1:20:03 PM PDT by Mount Athos
Once unthinkable, mobile phones could go dark around Europe this winter if power cuts or energy rationing knocks out parts of the mobile networks across the region.
European Union countries are trying to ensure communications can continue even if power cuts end up exhausting back-up batteries installed on the thousands of cellular antennas spread across their territory.
Europe has nearly half a million telecom towers and most of them have battery backups that last around 30 minutes to run the mobile antennas.
PTS is financing the purchase of transportable fuel stations and mobile base stations that connect to mobile phones to handle longer power outages, a PTS spokesperson said.
Deutsche Telekom (DTEGn.DE) will use mobile emergency power systems which mainly rely on diesel in the event of prolonged power failures, it said.
France has about 62,000 mobile towers, and the industry will not be able to equip all antennas with new batteries, the FFT's president Liza Bellulo said.
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Will it be bad enough to shut down the blathering BBC?
Damn you fake climate crisis and you too Klaus Schwab
“...half a million telecom towers and most of them have battery backups that last around 30 minutes to run the mobile antennas. “
Not even on a good day...
Oh Boy...this is GRRRREAT!
It’s hard to believe they are that ill prepared.
https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy09osti/44520.pdf
In the 2009 mid-South (USA) ice storm our area never lost cell service (Verizon), despite power off for days at a minimum. AT&T customers did, but IIRC there was actual physical damage at some key facility.
How did they ever survive WWII without mobile phones?
Yamamoto never would have gotten 200 miles from Oahu if we had mobile phones. The pilots would have been posting selfies on FB long before that strike range.
Seems like the whole world went to shitz super fast after the fake election in the US in 2020
Further discussion, including from people in the biz:
https://www.quora.com/How-many-hours-of-back-up-power-does-a-mobile-cell-tower-have
I rate this thread as either Russki disinformation or abject negligence by the Euros. I have a buddy (EE) in Switzerland who would be well positioned to know, and I’ll try to contact him.
All they’re gonna do is call people to see if their power is on anyway
That’s when things will get real, when the phone drones lose access to their mobile dopamine dispensaries.
Take that Putin!
“Can you hear me now?” - Trump
In the 2009 mid-South (USA) ice storm our area never lost cell service (Verizon), despite power off for days at a minimum. AT&T customers were out of luck for a good while, but IIRC there was actual physical damage or malfunction at some key AT&T local / central facility. Landline phones were almost all down due to trunk line damage (still on poles) or batteries running down at distribution nodes. Internet for some too after several hours - there, although underground cable had been run in my immediate area recently, again, backup batteries running down & no way to service them at remote hubs or nodes(?) due to impassable roads were a big problem, which I believe has been since addressed.
All the Emergency Management, etc., people in our County (who were all on AT&T) were scarfing up Verizon phones from family and friends...
How am I supposed to get an extended car warranty now?
I have an idea. Why don’t they just put some solar cells and a mini-windmill on each tower.
Is that mutant little freak still a thing?
WAIT as sec! I thought there was nothing that batteries couldn't do! Our entire future is batteries!
Full disclosure. My paternal great grandfather was a battery salesman, tech support guy, and district manager back in the 1890s in Germany. They used batteries in communication systems, lake boats, street cars, home radios -- you name it!
He started his own battery company "DAFA" in Danzig, Germany in the 1920s. He did really well financially.
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