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Think getting to your job in the winter sucks? The folks we don’t envy in the least are the clean-up crew from Greek telecom company, Cosmote, who had to deal with extreme weather conditions including this eighty times in one year.

“In cases where the height of the snow made it difficult to access base stations, technicians use special vehicles with caterpillar tracks, while there were some cases had to spend part of the distance even on foot. In most cases, the problems caused by ice sheets that had covered the base stations, particularly those located at high altitudes, “the mobile network said in a statement.

We’ll never take great reception for granted again.

Full story at Cellular-News and Twisted Sifter.

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