[Hidden-tech] Cell phone towers and power outages

B. Kimo Lee bklee at azurelink.com
Thu Jul 30 13:05:54 EDT 2015


Hi Charlie,

I have T-Mobile and had sub-par reception at home. T-Mobile sent me an ASUS router to connect to my Comcast router which would allow me to make cell calls via WIFI when at home — after enabling wifi calling on my iPhone.
Works like a charm. Only negative is if I'm on a wifi call and go outside away from the router. There isn't a hand off to cell, so you have to call back.

An added benefit for me was that the ASUS router has a 5G network on it that dramatically speeded up my regular Comcast internet for other devices.  On Comcast it crawled. Via the ASUS it flies! Same Comcast cable. Go figure!

Maybe Verizon can provide a similar router for you?

Best,
Kimo


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On Jul 30, 2015, at 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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