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I strongly strongly doubt that critical emergency call infrastructure will be blacked out before literally anything else.

Even when massive ice buildup took down a whole region's power grid in my home EU country, mobile cell towers were the first to be kept up and brought online to allow emergency services and citizens to communicate.

This feels like a nothing burger from Reuters (which is publishing some seriously dubious news these days).

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Indeed, they will just black out together with everything else. They are generally not on separate distribution circuits. They do have some limited backup power though.

The ones I was helping deploy usually had generators as backup because the requirements from the government was that emergency call infrastructure works when power goes out.

I can see smaller network operators save money on backups, but major monopolies usually don't have a choice in this manner.

So I wonder which regions don't do that?

For how long can these generators run?

As far as I know the Netherlands doesn't. But I don't work in that industry.

The general vibe of quotes from governments/operators in the article is they intend to find ways to keep essential services running in the event outages last longer than a couple of hours.

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