Powering up the network finds its ways, even if by local generators. Payment for service ends up often being mostly "prepaid" service via more old-school payment networks.
Originally Posted by
CPRich
In the modern world, is there such as thing as "the other sides(sic) comms"? I would expect both parts in the conflict to use cell communications, so no one has an interest in taking their own comms out along with the enemy's.
The so-called Masada complex has a modern variation, one pursued where destroying a mutually-used resource leaves the counterparty strategically or even tactically weaker than if leaving the mutually-used resource available for use by both/all sides to a conflict.
Even in the absence of some sort of Masada complex in the picture, conflicting money-seeking interests mean that physical protection of the service providing facilities is often deemed necessary since they are subject to destruction as part of lashing out for not getting the wanted slice of the economic pie.