Fun fact: during a flood mobile coverage can significantly drop as still water affects wireless signals and shortens the strength of signals.
Also a tower that comes disconnected from the primary network can be ‘wilted’ aka powered down so devices look elsewhere for better connectivity.
Lack of comms is leading some communities towards climate conspiracies that “weather bombs” triggered by bad actors are a cause rather than the clearly growing climate crisis.
Telstar and Optus need to step up and invest properly. These failures aren’t happening in the same way in water / energy sectors. Outages due to poor practices are on the rise.
Great discussion at today’s #auIGF forum.
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