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European telecommunications officials have warned of possible outages in mobile phone networks on the European continent, due to power outages caused by a lack of supplies.
"There are currently insufficient backup systems in many European countries to deal with large-scale blackouts, which increases the possibility of outages for mobile services," Reuters quoted four European telecoms executives as saying.
European Union countries, including France, Sweden and Germany, are seeking to ensure communication continues, even if power outages cause the use of spare batteries installed on thousands of cellular antennas scattered across their territory.
On European soil, there are nearly half a million telecom towers, most of which have backup batteries that can last for about 30 minutes to power the mobile phone antennas.
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