Telecom towers and their power
I assume cell phone towers have generators, and battery backup for when the generators run out of gas. Does anybody know if there is a standard on how long they have to be able to provide power for...
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During emergencies, critical infrastructure services are able to commandeer cell phone services. This is done with a special phone # and code that is entered. Depending on the code, the priority can change. For example, the electric company may have one code, the fire department another, with the fire department's code being a higher priority. When all cell phone channels are in use, the code bumps a low priority user to free up the resource for the code holder.
