[Hidden-tech] Cell phone towers and power outages

[David Korpiewski]

If you want to not deal with the issue at all, you could consider 
looking into a microcell in your house.  So if you have reliable 
internet, you can get a microcell and then your cell phone will always 
connect through the microcell in your house.  Its been great for me 
since I don't have any signal at all in my office in the basement, but 
now with the microcell I have 5 bars of signal no matter where I am in 
the house.
David


On 7/30/2015 11:24 AM, Town Websites wrote:
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> During one of the storms this week my house lost power for a few 
> minutes, and I noticed that my cell phone (Verizon network) lost data 
> connection.   Power came back on and the cell data stayed off for a 
> while longer, but I recall seeing bars indicating there was a cell 
> signal … but I didn’t try making a call.
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> So, a question for the illuminati on HT: how does the reliability of 
> cell towers in remote locations during power outages compare with that 
> of copper, and is the reliability for data similar to that for phone 
> service for each?   During an extended power outage, are towers more 
> likely to be available than copper, or less?  My recollection from 
> past extended outages was that we did have cell phone service, but it 
> would be great to have at least a sample of more than one, if not a 
> white paper about deployed power fault tolerance.
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> Happy summer!
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> Charlie
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*David Korpiewski*
Software Specialist I
CSCF - Computer Science Computing Facility
University of Massachusetts Amherst
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