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After a societal collapse there's probably still a need for valuable infrastructure such as power grid, etc which would require comms - and due to reduced manpo
by Nextgrid 4y ago
After a societal collapse there's probably still a need for valuable infrastructure such as power grid, etc which would require comms - and due to reduced manpower (or other hazardous conditions outside), satellite-based comms might actually become preferable to terrestrial/wire-based comms.
- UncleEntity 4y agoSure, but I doubt “survive zombie apocalypse” is a line item on any private satellite provider’s execution plan.
- mynameisvlad 4y agoI’m sure they have a BCDR plan, and I’m sure it says something like “in case of everything going down, we have bigger problems on our hands”. We never had an “apocalypse” scenario, but we had an “all of our dependent services are permanently down” to which the response was :shrug:
- ianburrell 4y agoBig problem is that all the satellite services need ground stations that need power and likely depend on the internet. It would be good if they worked without internet but that would take work that won’t be done without incentives. Ham radio would be fallback. The problem is that the technology is old and the bandwidth is limited. Long distance radio is in HF band, and the whole band is slightly bigger than Wifi channel. It also isn’t reliable cause depends on the ionosphere. It would be like going back 30 years.