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		yobbo on Sept 29, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Europe braces for mobile network blackouts There are different generations/eras of "towers". The ones dating from NMT and the cold war have their own little shrapnel-protected bunkers and most likely UPS:s. The latest ones which hang on every roof in cities might be turned off, but it just means phones scan until they find 2G/3G signals.

kalleboo on Sept 29, 2022 [–]

I remember in the several hour long power outage in Southern Sweden in 2003 the GSM network was still up

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