Thread: Can a major satellite failure cause cell/internet/tv to go down?

Novadays you just cut Internet to the Wall St. and you get world wide crisis

Originally Posted by Doomer

Novadays you just cut Internet to the Wall St. and you get world wide crisis

Well Nasdaq doesn't house their data at Wall street, but good point. They used to have a backup system here in Maryland and got rid of it.

Originally Posted by Полуношник

3. Were local tv broadcasters lost satellite signal they would be able to use old VHS instead. The later could start the world digital rights war, though.

P.S. I don't think that absence of TV is an emergency. There is nothing worth to watch anyway.

They might be able to broadcast, but who would be able to receive it? Sort of like the landline phones now. They are all digital now too for the folks that still have them. When the power goes out we only have 20-30 minutes of backup battery and then we are lost. When we had the major storm come through here we lost the cell towers, the landlines and the power. The only way we had to get information was radio. That was how we learned about services available and what was happening.

The TV is important as they broadcast information as to what is happening during a disaster. What is open, what is closed. Where to get help and services.