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It's unfortunately not that simple. I'm South African. We have load shedding "stages", where each stage sheds 1GW from the grid. We were just at stage 6 recent
by ryanjshaw 4y ago
It's unfortunately not that simple. I'm South African. We have load shedding "stages", where each stage sheds 1GW from the grid.
We were just at stage 6 recently, and this means there are days with 1x2.5hr outages and 2x4.5hr outages, with maybe 2-3hrs between these stages to recharge batteries. In my experience the cellphone towers do not always have sufficient time to recharge their batteries.
I live on an estate with a cellphone tower owned by the largest network operator, and this is still an issue. SMS-based MFA becomes a problem when this happens.
Interestingly, I have never once had a fibre outage through years of load shedding. (I have battery backup for my fibre CPE.) I can easily get 200mbps to a local DC while people relying on 4G or 5G are completely cut off.