Re:Full power outage in Spain and Portugal
by 20after4 on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @12:31AM
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Most mobile base stations have a limited backup battery and some have generators on site. I'd expect telephone infrastructure to have 24-48 hours of backup in the USA and I don't know why Europe would be much different.
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Population density is pretty high in many European inner cities. Most of the cell sites around here are on top of apartment buildings and I doubt they have a genset. Here in central BCN the mobile network was completely offline within an hour or two of the power going out.