[PLUG-TALK] Cellular phone signal loss/gain

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 2 May 2019, Russell Johnson wrote:

> If this is one of the carriers that resells service on the big carrier
> networks, keep in mind most all of those that resell are subject to being
> 'cut off' if the carrier infrastructure gets flooded. Which basically
> means if an event that causes lots of people to want to talk to lots of
> people (natural disaster type event) you probably won't have service until
> usage drops back down.
>
> It could be during times when AT&T is seeing a spike in AT&T traffic, so
> they are turning off all but connected sessions.
>
> They put this in small print.

Russ,

Could be. Happened with Verizon Wireless, too.

Probably teenagers texting each other because they don't know how to talk.

Thanks,

Rich