Comment on Iran’s internet blackout left people in the dark. How does a country shut down the internet?
14th_cylon@lemm.ee 1 day agocell towers do not really factor into this. they will just shut down local peering center and transit for major providers and they are done. far less moving elements to take care off than cell towers, which would not even address the whole problem (“problem” from the government’s point of view)
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 day ago
You misunderestood; I guessed that cell towers could be helpful in circumventing such shutdowns.
14th_cylon@lemm.ee 1 day ago
oh, then i did misunderstood, but i still don’t see what you are suggesting. maybe if you get assigned address you can have some limited p2p communication with nearby people, but if that is the case, a guy with a megapfone does similar job.
mmmac@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
Internet via sattelite is now a thing
14th_cylon@lemm.ee 22 hours ago
indeed it is. it is irrelevant to our discussion though. it is not a “cell tower” and it needs rather expensive end user hardware. limit of proliferation of such hardware among population during some kind of government internet shutdown will be approaching to zero.