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> Think more about centralized ops. Any individual store will of course notice their power has gone out.

And those individual stores report to centralized ops. This is a terrible usecase

How do those stores report to HQ when they don't have power? Even cell towers could be down if the situation is bad enough.

The lack of a signal/data gets investigated, upon which you find out the store has no power.

And that's _much_ more expensive than 1k/month. At least if you keep the ability to investigate effectively around all the time.

No it’s not. This isn’t a developing country.

A grocery chain will see maybe one outage in 10 years that is bad enough to take out the store and internet+cell phone networks.

Dispatching someone is absolutely more cost effective for these rare occasions.

A backup battery. If you’re worried about cell phone outages, use Starlink.