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Re:State of emergency declared after blackout plunges most o... by mrbungie on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @10:29AM (#43184550)
Most telco and central gov. tech infra was actually working, unstable, but working during the first hours of the outage. I know some friends eventually lost connectivity in remote parts of the country though (for 2-3 hours at most).

For the average chilean: As long as you had 4G-5G equipment with working batteries, you had internet and access to essential gov services.

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Re:State of emergency declared after blackout plunges most o... by aeyes on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @11:48AM (#43185415)
That's not true. At 7pm local time cellular service in Santiago was pretty much dead. Most antennas only have backup power for 4 hours.
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Re:State of emergency declared after blackout plunges most o... by mrbungie on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @03:04PM (#43187600)
I had (unstable) cellular service all the way through, and chatted with other people too. Probably commune/zone-related.
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Re:State of emergency declared after blackout plunges most o... by dietr1ch on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @02:57PM (#43187501)
The infra is generally great, although lately new operators have pushed quality down as they push aggressive pricing and cost savings through dubious lobbying and corner cutting on reliability.

Nowadays some antennas go down right after a power outage because they don't have backup batteries. People also realised that they are quite pricey, so people melting copper lines moved to stealing batteries after the shift to optic fiber. To me this activity is straight out terrorism as it takes down critical infrastructure, I'm generally leftist, but ready to shoot these people on the spot if I actually had a gun.

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