Not only text messages on new years eve
But also pretty much any unplanned but inevitable peaks in mobile usage (voice, data, etc) at e.g. large public events, where extra capacity is often delivered temporarily on a fleet of trailers, e.g. tourist areas where there are seasonal peaks in demand which are not matched by seasonal increases in capacity, e.g. unplanned but inevitable events on the motorway network where traffic stops for miles in both directions and everyone wants to phone their mates to talk/Twit about the latest I'm a NonEntity Get Me Out of Here etc
When 7/7 happened, emergency services mobile comms didn't perform well.
Doubtless lessons have been learned, as always.
Has there been any reliable analysis (preferably published analysis) of how well the mobile comms for the emergency services performed in the Grenfell Tower incident earlier this year?
Still at least if netwiork traffic is capacity constrained it might have the useful side effect of reducing the risk of fake incidents causing real harm, like the Oxford Street incident yesterday which was massively inflamed by the rolling news+speculation networks and their TwitBook friends.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/24/oxford-circus-station-evacuated-armed-police-respond-incident2/
Biting the hand that feeds IT
