When a carrier goes down, it goes down for everyone at once. The Verizon outage and the New York City blackout scare proved the same point: terrestrial networks share failure points, and your phone is only as good as the tower nearest to you. This section tracks satellite network outages and carrier failures as they happen, plus the pattern behind them. If your emergency plan assumes a cell tower will be standing, these posts are the argument for a second link that never touches the ground.
On September 23rd, 2025, the U.S. Secret Service quietly stopped a plot that could have plunged New York City—and the surrounding tristate area—into a complete communications blackout. The operation didn’t make headline news, but the official press release revealed a chilling reality: a sophisticated network of more than 300 co‑located SIM servers and 100,000 SIM cards was discovered and dismantled just in time.
