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Not as far, I know here in Europe. Why should they. For sure, they have batterys for one hour or so. But there is no second electric connection, to a diffrent electric grid. Something like that does not really exist, because our electric grid was not planed in mind for a such situation.



Most main base stations have diesel generators, not second power grid.


Or if like in USA commonly are fueled by natural gas infrastructure, or propane in a tank (as well as the Diesel, althou that is less common)


When we had a 6h power outage a few years ago in my city in Germany, mobile services were completely down as well.


I am not so sure if this is true for mobile base stations in Europe e.g. in cities, mounted on roofs of e.g. a church or another building roof.


Have you ever seen an antenna on a roof somewhere with a diesel generator?


There is T-Mobile equipment on my building. They are connected to the diesel generator circuit (shared with the elevator) and have battery backup.




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