Optus outrage....., page-6

So, how long can society survive if the internet and mobile phones go away?

How much money do we lose, how many people do we lose?

Do you all have enough food, fuel, water and medicine to survive 3 days with no supplies? Generally, people don't, they live day to day.
The number who could survive 5 days on what is in their house drops to something like 25%

https://knowledge.aidr.org.au/resources/ajem-jul-2017-cascading-and-complex-network-failures/