Cellular 'phone communications are brilliant in emergencies and inherently resilient. The towers and their connections need resilience and redundancy, but you can use any particular 'phone with many different networks. And even without recharging many 'phones will last for several days without recharging.Biospace wrote: ↑26 Jan 2024, 12:52pm ...
With reduced levels of Grid redundancy, greater than ever reliance on electricity and ever fewer alternatives we could be sitting ducks if our electricity switches off for more than a day or two in decades to come - many communication channels would be off, if winter then houses would be cold and lit by telephones then candles, there'd be no hot food other than for those with camp stoves and power left in car batteries would be likely saved for any emergency.
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Jonathan