” Landlines still work in power outages in case of emergencies. Cell phones don’t. “
My cell phone still works when I have a power outage.
My cell phone still works when I have a power outage.
My cell phone works just fine during power outages also. I worked fine during the last big ice storm we had here in central PA even during my 18+ hour power outage but I had no internet as my cable modem doesn’t work without power.
The problem with cell phones (and land lines as well during a major disaster even if the power is still on) is that the systems quickly become overloaded.
I lived and worked in Baltimore on 9/11 and even though there were no power outages, it was very difficult to get a dial tone and or make any calls on anywhere on the East Coast. It was also very difficult to connect cell phone calls or once connected, calls would drop. I also experienced internet slowdowns and intermittent outages that day too. I remember it well as I was finalizing my company’s payroll that Tuesday and had to work with ADP to re-route our normal wire transfer to another bank as the bank we normally dealt with was in lower Manhattan.
I was also living in Baltimore during the blizzard of ‘83¸which had not been forecasted and caught pretty much everyone by surprise. I kept picking up the phone, attempting to call my main office to get permission to close my store early and all I got was either no dial tone or that dial tone that indicated that all circuits were busy.