So a few towns over someone drilled through the fibre line resulting in lost cell coverage, no internet, eftpos etc. for most of last night.
Question: Why was our Skinny (Spark) cell phone still able to ring out (albeit much degraded signal)? My best guess is cell towers for calls and data would also depend on the fibre line but maybe old tech kicked in when the fibre died? Two Degrees phones and Vodafone phones were reported to not be working during the outage.
Can someone explain to me how cell phones and cell data work in relation to the fibre line?
