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Mobile Cell Towers Answer Disaster's Call

COLTs race to the rescue

According to a story published in the Denver Post Verizon recently unveiled new COLTs, or cells on light trucks, that will be kept in Denver for rapid disaster response anywhere in Colorado. The company maintains the cell-tower trucks for disaster response in cities throughout the nation. The company still uses COWs, or cells on wheels, to provide cellular service in disasters ranging from fires to snowstorms that knock out cell phone service, but Verizon has added the COLTs for quicker response times.

Cellular antennas and other equipment mounted in the vehicle used for COLTs can be up and running within hours compared with the day-long process needed to deploy the company's older COWs.

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