"Not only is the power out, but the mobile internet is gone too" – a situation familiar to many in Ukraine after Russian attacks on the energy sector. Why does it happen? In particular because the mobile operators' towers that provide communication are also subject to stabilizing power outages.

To reduce the number of such situations, mobile operators began investing billions of hryvnias in autonomously powering their base stations from the very start of the full-scale war.

How many base stations have already been successfully provided with backup power sources? How much did it cost? And why didn't solar panels work out for all operators? Ukraine's largest mobile operators – Kyivstar, Vodafone, and lifecell – told LIGA.net about this.

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