Subj : Re: cell service  was: Note f
To   : Barry Martin
From : Nancy Backus
Date : Mon Jan 13 2020 02:25:12

-=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 05-Jan-2020 09:44 <=-
 BM> Subject: cell service  was: Note from Daryl Stout

 DS>>>   Yet, with the storms, the BBS was offline to protect from
 DS>>> lightning damage...and the Verizon Mi-Fi was very erratic,
 DS>>> because of the storms. Whenever there's bad weather, the cell
 DS>>> networks are the first thing to crash.
 BM>> Hmmm: no one has mentioned loss of cell phone service because of
 BM>> weather issues.  Either they just accept it or the system locally is
 BM>> sturdier.
 NB>> Cell networks don't seem to crash for bad weather here, either...
 NB>> My phone seems to work whatever the weather....
 BM> OK, thanks for the verification.  Could be all sorts of reasons why
 BM> Daryl's cell connection fails during bad weather; would think it would
 BM> be corrected as more people are getting cellular service as their
 BM> primary telephone.

Could be that their cell tower system hasn't been updated recently... or
maybe the storms are more violent, so they wreak more havoc with cell
signals.... 

ttyl        neb

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