Public Comms SHTF

[Joe]

Totally agree LS, the loss of smart phones will be catastrophic to anyone under 30. However some of the older generation will still remember the basics of using CB etc and I suspect there’s a lot of CBs out there that might still work ( I suspect more than half will die on power up due to capacitor issues) .

As far as tv and radio is concerned a lot of this could go down during a large event but some providers like the BBC have off air feeds and satellite back ups.

One of the very big issues that very few are aware of is the loss of Gps. Yes most will scream without the sat nav but that’s a minor. The major thing is the loss of gps timing. In fact the whole of the telecom network and most other industries are dependent on gps timing. For example on back up timing could BT connect to Vodafone? Doubtful. In the old days we had Rugby timing transmissions but I don’t even know if this is still available.