>Mobile phones continue to work during a disaster as long as the base station batteries hold out and that’s with cheap base stations serving very large amounts

>Mobile phones continue to work during a disaster as long as the base station batteries hold out and that’s with cheap base stations serving very large amounts of idiot users Maybe? There are numerous accounts of inoperable service when incidents like 9/11 or the Boston bombing occurred. So in cases where the system is flooded, it might be a crap shoot. The only way this would work is with dedicated frequency and possibly infrastructure, similar to FirstNet.