Irakli, a Mobile Weblog reader, has a question for all you out there who know your operator networks.
I know from all the feedback I get that there’s lots of you who know far more than me about techie things, so now’s your chance to help and earn some karmic brownie points at the same time.
I’d like to know how a mobile network is designed to cope with a sudden
surge, ie if something big happens somewhere and the rest of the
country tries to phone in. How does the system balance the surge? Can
there be any sort of priorisation (always presumed there is one in
place and that the telcos wouldn’t admit). How many simultaneous calls
would an average network in an average european city of 1m cope with?
Can anyone help? Leave a comment (though it’s acting very slooooow right now) or email me by clicking here.
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