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No service when power is out
Does anyone know why a TMobile cell phone won't work during power outage yet other providers' phones do? It's frightening to be without power AND cell service!
You need to be careful about assuming that the system is down when the Internet stops working. When the power goes out, most people have only their cell phones for communications and they lean on them really hard. This saturates the cellular capacity bringing traffic to a crawl. It's operating at full speed but it wasn't designed for the load. If you can send and receive texts (SMS) the system is working.
