> 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 using the cheapest of the cheap handsets limited by regulations. Why "idiot"? Are they idiots for using cheap handsets? I really can't tell why you added that word.