Comment Cell vs wire/fiber-line reliability (Score 2) 142
Well-maintained wire and fiber is generally more reliable than well-maintained cellular. There's just too many things that can temporarily glitch out a radio-based system long enough to disrupt a call.
There is at least one risk that radio-based systems are much more resistant to: The fiber-seeking backhoe (North American variety depicted, Backhoe fili-comedens).
On the downside, if the only fiber in the area is the fiber feeding the cell towers, the fiber-seeking backhoes will get hungry and seek out what fiber there is, so bye-bye cell towers