Spain’s blackout leads to the use of Musk’s Starlink

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Portuguese and Portuguese mobile phone users turned into Starlink from Elon Musk with standard numbers on Monday, as it is a wide blackout on the electricity on the open -ups in the telecommunications networks.

The use of Starlink satellite service increased by 35 percent when communications coverage in both countries decreased, according to data analyzed in the Financial Times. The use was 60 percent higher in Spain than the average on Tuesday, as mobile networks struggled to return to speed.

The data provided by the OKla Internet access analyst showed the use of a “record” for Starlink in the country with “thousands” of people who use the service, according to Luke Kehoe, although the company refused to provide accurate numbers about use.

Starlink’s coverage quality decreased with the transformation of more users to the service, but it was not interrupted During a darknessHe added. While some land stations on the mainland have lost service, communications were possible for sites in other countries such as Italy.

However, it is unlikely that satellite coverage will be widely widespread to provide coverage for millions of users during any similar immersion events in the future. Users need enough fees in mobile devices to access the service.

Spanish network operator Electric red He said that he does not know the exact reason for the interruption, which some experts linked to the inability of the electricity network in Spain to unusually high supply management of solar energy.

The coverage of traditional mobile devices in Spain and Portugal was severely affected by the power outage, which led to the becoming more flexible.

Owokla found that the consistency of the network, a measure of the service of the service, decreased to half of its regular average on Monday afternoon.

This came as many thousands of mobile antennas came out across Spain due to the loss of power, leaving only those who work in the generation of backup.

“Many people were trying to reach very few resources. That’s why it was difficult during the recovery stage to be stable,” explained by Claudio Vandrino, a researcher at the IMDEA Institute in Madrid.

Communications networks often have backup copies in some sites, but there are limits to use.

Vodafone, Spain, said that the birthplace generators kicked 70 percent of its locations in Spain when the power outage began. But by 11 pm, many areas still have low levels of mobile traffic, with areas including Galicia, Castilla La Mancha and MURCIA covering only 20 percent.

Telefónica, another great provider, said that it “gave the critical infrastructure priorities for emergency services and hospitals by rationalizing the use of resources” during the power outages, and restoring 95 percent of its mobile networks within a little more than 24 hours and “full normal” by Thursday.

“Spain and Portugal” are not unique in that there is no large presence of battery backup generators in the mobile phone site. “

In the UK, a recently released report by Offcom was found that for short electrical power outages, about two -thirds of the United Kingdom will be able to make emergency calls for at least one hour, thanks to the generation of backups of about five mast sites.

But less than five percent of these sites have backup facilities of no less than 6 hours. It would cost about one billion pounds to upgrade mobile phone networks to ensure four hours of access to emergency services to almost all people.

Offices told the telecom companies that the costs of saving the backup are “high”, according to February a report.

Kiho said that Spanish and Portuguese telecom companies are working on “very narrow margins” because the prices are very low. This makes investment in flexibility more difficult than northern European, for example, as the average revenue for each user is higher and where the generation of backup is stronger.

While Spain’s interruption was contrary to anything that the country experienced before, the increase in harsh weather events pushes more focus on the elasticity of communications networks.

In Norway, operators must finance the battery backup for two hours in cities and four hours in rural areas. Australia has provided funded grants to the public to the operators to provide 12 hours of battery backups in some remote areas.

Grace Nelson, an analyst for the association’s research company, a research company based in the United Kingdom, said that the reasons for the Spanish blackout are still not specific, but it is likely to be the measure of “Clarion’s invitation to the government and the organizers to pay attention to flexibility.”

Participated in additional reports by Kiran Smith