In the US, the towers that provide mobile service are required to have a few hours worth of battery backup. The EU may require more, but I’d expect them to go down not too long after the main grid goes out.
About a month ago, almost the whole city (northern Germany) lost power for about forty minutes. My signal was down to an unusable edge connection. I really don’t know what the rules are
That Edge connection could’ve been useful if every app and website weren’t loaded with six trillion tracking scripts and 10MB’ worth of JavaScript frameworks.
Yeah, I’m in Portugal and while it’s true that we still had signal, all I could really use was WhatsApp. Any website I tried to use took way too long to load - just unusable.
Yeah, it’s the same here, but what’s interesting is that the rest of the infrastructure for Internet connectivity to the rest of the World beyond that is still up.
At the very least the routers and the top level network cables connecting us to the rest of Europe (Portugal is pretty peripheral) and/or the underwater cables to the US are still powered up and working.
That kind of facility tends to have its own backup power, often with a week or so of fuel stockpiled on-site.
Back when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, there was a period where the only building with power was a datacenter. The lights prompted soldiers to break in, and the system admin wound up having to pretend that they’d discovered evidence of somebody nefarious forcing the door, so they’d clear the building and leave.
In the US, the towers that provide mobile service are required to have a few hours worth of battery backup. The EU may require more, but I’d expect them to go down not too long after the main grid goes out.
About a month ago, almost the whole city (northern Germany) lost power for about forty minutes. My signal was down to an unusable edge connection. I really don’t know what the rules are
That Edge connection could’ve been useful if every app and website weren’t loaded with six trillion tracking scripts and 10MB’ worth of JavaScript frameworks.
Yeah, I’m in Portugal and while it’s true that we still had signal, all I could really use was WhatsApp. Any website I tried to use took way too long to load - just unusable.
It was too weak to use. It was connected but with no bars. It was probably well outside the city where they still had power
Yeah, it’s the same here, but what’s interesting is that the rest of the infrastructure for Internet connectivity to the rest of the World beyond that is still up.
At the very least the routers and the top level network cables connecting us to the rest of Europe (Portugal is pretty peripheral) and/or the underwater cables to the US are still powered up and working.
That kind of facility tends to have its own backup power, often with a week or so of fuel stockpiled on-site.
Back when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, there was a period where the only building with power was a datacenter. The lights prompted soldiers to break in, and the system admin wound up having to pretend that they’d discovered evidence of somebody nefarious forcing the door, so they’d clear the building and leave.