[celso]

Portugal has no electricity as we speak. Funny enough telcos and 4G/5G are fine for now, I'm guessing batteries and diesel backups kicked in and are doing their job.

[karohalik]

There is still no electricity, at least in my neighborhood in Lisbon. Less noise, more human voices outside. Time to meet some more neighbors I guess.

[karohalik]

Update: still no electricity, 4G/5G is barely working, city is more chaotic than usual but not that dramatic as some media say - there are huge queues to the buses and smaller shops that are still working, more people are outside.

[rcarmo]

Yeah, we just told you that via Signal - that’s how we built the networks :)

(No relation to the other infamous Signal chat :))

There should be 4-8 hours of battery backup on every site - at least.

[ethbr1]

Wow! Battery capacity has gotten cheap.

It's always fascinated me during disasters how independent telecomm can be. Kudos for all the engineering that went into it!

I.e. even when any other conceivable dependency is down, the networks keep running.

[yreg]

> we just told you that via Signal

Who are you and what's Signal?

[miohtama]

Most base station masts have lead battery backup up to 24h - 48h.