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Re:A Cell Tower in the Swiss Alps Is Struck by Lightning Mor... by reaperducer on Saturday July 13, 2019 @12:44PM (#20428892)
It's a cell tower. It needs cables anyway.

I've seen plenty of remote communications towers that do not have cables. Solar powered with generator backup and microwave relays to the next hop. It's SOP in the railroad industry, and how Sprint got its first backbone. (The "SPR" in "Sprint" is Southern Pacific Railroad.)

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Re:A Cell Tower in the Swiss Alps Is Struck by Lightning Mor... by vvanders on Saturday July 13, 2019 @12:51PM (#20428934)
Yup, the local WISP does the same thing. Relay high up on the mountains and ptp link back to the main office.
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Re:A Cell Tower in the Swiss Alps Is Struck by Lightning Mor... by rootsudo on Saturday July 13, 2019 @04:21PM (#20429935)
TIL. Wow!
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