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Introduction
As mobile phone density has increased world wide, cellular communications have been increasingly reached for during an environmental disaster, wartime, and other crises. However, like any powered infrastructure, this communications technology is vulnerable to blackouts. Further, cell tower (or 'cell site') base stations and repeaters are dependent on the integrity of the structure to which they are affixed, and so as vulnerable to the effects of storms, earthquakes and floods as the building or radio mast to which they are attached.
This page will look at the disaster tolerance of cellular communications, detail work done to improve reliability in a crisis situation, and provide solutions implementable and maintainable by communities in service to their own needs, providing inexpensive low-power wide-area mobile phone telephony.