All this while I was trying unsuccessfully to use my
mobile to ring the office.
Some cell relays were temporarily shut to prevent a remote
detonation of additional explosives. Cellular remotes seem
to be a favorite of Al Qaeda and others.
-M<
UK Government officials deny they shutdown any cell phone service.
Would the folks posting news related events please footnote source URLS, especially if arguing over factual details?
Thanks.
- billn
My personal experience, with the last few disasters, is that cell 'phone
services tend to shut themselves down in the affected areas. Sort of a
natural feedback type of thing. ;-]
:
: On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 08:49:47PM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote:
: > On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Hannigan, Martin wrote:
: > > > All this while I was trying unsuccessfully to use my
: > > > mobile to ring the office.
: > >
: > > Some cell relays were temporarily shut to prevent a remote
: > > detonation of additional explosives. Cellular remotes seem
: > > to be a favorite of Al Qaeda and others.
: >
: > UK Government officials deny they shutdown any cell phone service.
:
: My personal experience, with the last few disasters, is that cell 'phone
: services tend to shut themselves down in the affected areas. Sort of a
: natural feedback type of thing. ;-]
:
I heard it was a feature called Catastrophic Response Adaptive SHutdown.
Mark
UK Government officials deny they shutdown any cell phone service.
And they are correct.
There was no shutdown of the mobile phone networks during or after the
incidents.
There was a request to give priority to emergency services and/or to limit
cell site logins so that capacity was always available. This was
confirmed during a conf call of all the major operators in the UK just
after the events.
[source - me, I was on the call :-)]