Like all three telcos, T-Mobile pre-deploys equipment in anticipation for disruptions. In “areas that have been hit by hurricanes or places that have fragile grids … that is where we have invested most of our fixed assets,” he said. Jay Naillon, senior director of national technology service operations strategy at T-Mobile, said that the company has made resilience a key part of its network buildout in recent years, with investments in generators at cell towers that can be relied upon when the grid cannot. So all three of America’s major telcos - Verizon (which owns TechCrunch’s parent company Verizon Media, although not for much longer), AT&T and T-Mobile - have had to dramatically scale up their resiliency efforts in recent years to compensate both for the demand for wireless and the growing damage wrought by weather. Unsurprisingly, no issue looms larger for telcos than access to power - no juice, no bars. Resiliency of these networks isn’t just needed for consumers - it’s absolutely necessary for the very responders trying to mitigate disasters and get the network back up in the first place. Few industries have to be as dynamic to the changing context as telecom companies, whose wired and wireless infrastructure is regularly buffeted by severe storms. Wireless resilience as the world burnsĬlimate change is inducing more intense weather patterns all around the world, creating second- and third-order effects for industries that rely on environmental stability for operations.
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So in part three of this series on the future of technology and disaster response, we’re going to analyze the changing nature of bandwidth and connectivity and how they intersect with emergencies, taking a look at how telcos are creating resilience in their networks while defending against climate change, how first responders are integrating connectivity into their operations, and finally, exploring how new technologies like 5G and satellite internet will affect these critical activities. While the sales cycles might be arduous as we learned in part one and the data trickles have finally turned to streams in part two, the reality is that none of that matters if there isn’t connectivity to begin with. Today though, the highest priority is by necessity internet access, not just for citizens, but increasingly for the on-the-ground first responders who need bandwidth to protect themselves, keep abreast of their mission objectives, and have real-time ground truth on where dangers lurk and where help is needed. In decades past, the singular focus could be roughly summarized as rescue and mitigation - save who you can while trying to limit the scale of destruction. So when it comes to disaster response, the world has dramatically changed. Hospitals, law enforcement, the government, every corporation - the entire spectrum of human institutions that constitute civilization now deeply rely on connectivity to function. Outages aren’t just missing a must-watch TikTok clip. Those fears of downtime are not just science fiction anymore. PST, Wednesday, and Friday at 6:00 AM PST, so subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts! Author jgleba Posted on Categories apollo, AT&T, crypto, Cryptocurrency, Elon Musk, equity, Equity Monday, Houm, India, Moglix, pine labs, real estate, San Francisco, Sequoia, TC, twitter, verizon, vise, Y Combinator When the Earth is gone, at least the internet will still be working
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AT&T is getting out of the TV game to some degree, selling media assets to help pay down debt.From the weekend: San Francisco real estate is a mess Twitter Blue is coming and I am hype about it Elon Musk roiled crypto markets by being himself, which doesn’t speak too highly of the asset class.Early-stage founders can still apply for the impending Disrupt Battlefield even.There was lots to get through today, so, in order, here’s the rundown: You can follow the show on Twitter here and myself here. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market news, talks about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from the private markets. Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.
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