A phone with no signal cannot call for help.

What Blackout does

Forecast

Where signal dies, before you drive.

Plot the route and we sample it against modeled carrier coverage, marking every stretch we expect to go dark and roughly how long you will be inside it.

Watch

A link that escalates on its own.

Send one link to one person. It counts down while you are off the air and raises itself if you do not come back — nothing for them to install, nothing for you to remember.

Honest

A forecast, not a measurement.

The browser cannot read your bars, so nothing here pretends to. This is a prediction from modeled data, and modeled coverage runs optimistic — we round against it on purpose.

  1. Plan
  2. Start
  3. Share
  4. Silence
  5. Alarm

Coverage is a forecast, not a measurement. Browsers cannot read signal strength, so we predict from modeled data and treat anything weaker than −100 dBm as dark. Modeled coverage runs optimistic; we round against it on purpose.

Coverage data derived from the FCC Broadband Data Collection via BroadbandMap.com. Not endorsed by the FCC.