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I don't know about cell towers, but all AT&T central offices have generators with massive fuel tanks that can run even if the gas supply is cut off. I would be
by thedaly 3y ago
I don't know about cell towers, but all AT&T central offices have generators with massive fuel tanks that can run even if the gas supply is cut off. I would be surprised if the backup for cell towers didn't have similar systems.
- Arrath 3y agoMy partner's father works for AT&T and he has related a story where at least one cell tower went offline because the office was ignoring the NO LINE POWER/BACKUP GEN FUEL LOW warning duo[0] and assumed all was good when the warnings went silent when, in fact, it was now dark. [0]A very rural installation that often experienced power cuts, so they had become numb to alarm 1. Somewhere in the mystical ticket/service system, the schedule to refuel the tower had go awry so it gradually sucked down its fuel over the course of many power interruptions and viola.