If this is true, then this is very worrying.

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Not going to say too much, apart from if it's true, then this is very worrying.

read this.
http://news.iafrica.com/sa/867640.html

Here's the extract of the post that's getting me on my nerves.

“I have a family member who works for a LARGE cellphone Company. He was called to a meeting last week, to organize the shutting down of all cellphone reception, internet, etc throughout SA, on the announcement of the death of Mandela. Now that's what I call a democracy! Obviously Zuma is expecting some sort of uprising, like in Egypt. Maybe he knows how much he is really hated by everyone?”

If this is true, then this can not be allowed.
 
If you manage to get near Obama's convoy in CT, take a quick glance at your phone and try to call someone. Apparantly they can block any wireless signal within a 5km radius if necessary.

Intended to prevent remote IED detonations etc. iirc
 
bromster said:
If you manage to get near Obama's convoy in CT, take a quick glance at your phone and try to call someone. Apparantly they can block any wireless signal within a 5km radius if necessary.
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Likely far more than 5km. e.g. The Warlock Green system has a 25W output which is a serious amount of jamming power.
 
Yeah. 19km rings a bell, but I didn't want to overestimate.
 
there is no kill switch for the Internet and all of our electronic communications networks have redundancies built in. My guess is that any discussion about Mandela's death and cellular providers will be about whether we have sufficient capacity for the increased network traffic 20 million concurrent voice calls will have the effect of a distributed denial of service attack. Cellular systems are at the moment not well adapted to emergency situations. Basically consider New Years eve and add some. You also need to add the fact that there is a chance of some terrorist acts from various right wing groups which may include communications infrastructe and which requires that certain communications not be interrupted by congestion. It is basically very responsible for operators at the moment to be expanding their capacity ("supply") without matching demand -- much the same as largely happened in 2010 for a bit.
 
PaulB_ said:
Not going to say too much, apart from if it's true, then this is very worrying.

read this.
http://news.iafrica.com/sa/867640.html

Here's the extract of the post that's getting me on my nerves.

“I have a family member who works for a LARGE cellphone Company. He was called to a meeting last week, to organize the shutting down of all cellphone reception, internet, etc throughout SA, on the announcement of the death of Mandela. Now that's what I call a democracy! Obviously Zuma is expecting some sort of uprising, like in Egypt. Maybe he knows how much he is really hated by everyone?”

If this is true, then this can not be allowed.
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Its on the internet so has to be true
 
Not possible.....A cellphone company cannot shut down the internet to the whole country anyway........Add to that the fact that failovers are in place in case there are outages.

I don't think the death of Mandela will be the end of Zuma. Sadly, I actually think it will aid him (Vote ANC to rememeber Madiba). We have a country full of idiots, so they will listen.
 
Paul Hjul said:
there is no kill switch for the Internet and all of our electronic communications networks have redundancies built in. My guess is that any discussion about Mandela's death and cellular providers will be about whether we have sufficient capacity for the increased network traffic 20 million concurrent voice calls will have the effect of a distributed denial of service attack. Cellular systems are at the moment not well adapted to emergency situations. Basically consider New Years eve and add some. You also need to add the fact that there is a chance of some terrorist acts from various right wing groups which may include communications infrastructe and which requires that certain communications not be interrupted by congestion. It is basically very responsible for operators at the moment to be expanding their capacity ("supply") without matching demand -- much the same as largely happened in 2010 for a bit.
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Paul, you are an intelligent and knowledgeable person, but for the life of me, could you please construct your statements into paragraphs? :p

I do want to read them, it just becomes more difficult when everything is bunched together...

/rant over
 
Back in the day when it was new years eve, cell towers would have so much traffic go through them at once that the message you sent could not go through, but I dont see this happening any more...
 
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