“It’s Another Day with Jim and Bill” Episode 551-Millions Americans were silenced yesterday when a number of cell companies experienced a large scale outage-and we still don’t know why it happened.

Welcome to the weekend edition of “It’s Another Day with Jim and Bill” Episode 551. Millions of cell phone users were left in the dark yesterday…their phones were about as useful as a boat anchor…when several cell companies experienced a large-scale outage. It began at about 4 AM and seemed to grow throughout the day. And what was troubling was that the companies couldn’t seem to figure out what caused it. Some possible reasons were presented but, as of this writing, a specific cause has not been made public. What it did demonstrate was how easily we could be crippled by such an act. This was just one piece of our ‘grid’…what if some bad actors decided to bring all of our public utilities down…at the same time?  Where would we be left then? In an instant, we would be back in the mid-nineteenth century. Most of everything we rely on would be useless. We talk about this and much more on today’s program. Thanks for tuning in.