[TheList] NGCC

Sun Sep 29 15:17:07 AEST 2019

Atleast someone at FENZ had the brains to keep the pager network running...

On 29/09/2019 5:56 p.m., Radio Engineering wrote:
> I can see this turning into a three-ring-circus.
> The Christchurch earthquakes showed how unreliable the cellular system 
> is. Most cellsites went down within an hour of losing mains power, and 
> when generators were sent out to re-power them they ended up being stolen.
> Recently the government wanted to use the cellular network as a 
> national reporting system for Civil Defence to alert people to 
> emergency situations.
> Same scenario - if we have a decent quake here the cellular 
> infrastructure won't cut it.
> Now they want to use it as the primary means for emergency services 
> communications?
> Tell me I'm missing something here.
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