How do telephone mast have so many phones connected to them at once?

Question

A router will get slower the more devices connected to it but masts can handle 10’s of thousands of connections at once.

In: Technology

Answer 1

You mean like compared to the router in your home?

Cell towers, edge/core routers (the huge 6 figure routers used at your ISP), etc have a maximum capacity too, they’re just, of course, much higher than your $100 router at home, and the ISP/phone company hires engineers to try to make sure their equipment doesn’t exceeds a threshold where you’d notice it becoming slower.