At least in my country, cell towers are numerous and get an equipment cabinet about the size of a fridge; telephone exchanges are one-per-city and the size of a small office building.
Much easier to provide a generator for the latter.
Yep, this was why as a kid we kept our landline even after we all got cellphones: Old-fashioned landlines were more likely to still work during a power outage.
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At least in my country, cell towers are numerous and get an equipment cabinet about the size of a fridge; telephone exchanges are one-per-city and the size of a small office building.
Much easier to provide a generator for the latter.
Yep, this was why as a kid we kept our landline even after we all got cellphones: Old-fashioned landlines were more likely to still work during a power outage.