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Re:AT&T customers hit by widespread cellular outages in U.S. by lionkor on Thursday February 22, 2024 @09:21AM (#39467431)
If FirstNet is down that would mean a lot more is down than should be. FirstNet can operate on lower range radio, no?
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Re:AT&T customers hit by widespread cellular outages in U.S. by maxsilver on Thursday February 22, 2024 @09:28AM (#39467551)
It can (FirstNet's lower 700mhz spectrum), but AT&T uses the same backbone and infrastructure and towers for large chunks of their and FirstNet's network.

(charitably) - FirstNet is mostly now just a type of billing plan and priority level, on AT&T's network.

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