{"id":519810,"date":"2022-12-02T12:54:39","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T09:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/ukrainian-engineers-scramble-to-keep-mobile-phones-working\/"},"modified":"2022-12-02T12:54:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T09:54:39","slug":"ukrainian-engineers-scramble-to-keep-mobile-phones-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ukrainian-engineers-scramble-to-keep-mobile-phones-working\/","title":{"rendered":"#Ukrainian engineers scramble to keep mobile phones working"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a26b4e5b04c9\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a26b4e5b04c9\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ukrainian-engineers-scramble-to-keep-mobile-phones-working\/#%E2%80%9CUkrainian_engineers_scramble_to_keep_mobile_phones_working%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Ukrainian engineers scramble to keep mobile phones working&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CUkrainian_engineers_scramble_to_keep_mobile_phones_working%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Ukrainian engineers scramble to keep mobile phones working&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>KYIV, Ukraine  \u2014 With Ukraine scrambling to keep communication lines open during the war, an army of engineers from the country\u2019s phone companies has mobilized to help the public and policymakers stay in touch during repeated\u00a0Russian missile and drone strikes.<\/p>\n<p>The engineers, who typically go unseen and unsung in peacetime, often work around the clock to maintain or restore phone service, sometimes braving minefields to do so. After Russian strikes took out the electricity that cellphone towers usually run on, they revved up generators to keep the towers on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know our guys \u2014 my colleagues \u2014 are very exhausted, but they\u2019re motivated by the fact that we are doing an important thing,\u201d Yuriy Dugnist, an engineer with Ukrainian telecommunications company Kyivstar, said after crunching through a half-foot of fresh snow to reach a fenced-in mobile phone tower on the western fringe of Kyiv, the capital.<\/p>\n<p>Dugrist and his co-workers offered a glimpse of their new daily routines, which involve using an <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a> on their own phones to monitor which of the scores of phone towers in the capital area were receiving electricity, either during breaks from the\u00a0controlled blackouts\u00a0being used to conserve energy or from the generators that kick in to provide backup power.<\/p>\n<p>One entry ominously read, in English, \u201cLow Fuel.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/Ukraine_Russia_War_Maintaining_Mobile_36807jpg-4f318.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/Ukraine_Russia_War_Maintaining_Mobile_36807jpg-4f318.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Technicians of Ukrainian mobile telephone network operator Kyivstar fill up jerrycans with fuel from a gasoline station in Kyiv, Ukraine on Nov. 30, 2022.\" class=\"wp-image-24869074\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/Ukraine_Russia_War_Maintaining_Mobile_36807jpg-4f318.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/Ukraine_Russia_War_Maintaining_Mobile_36807jpg-4f318.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Technicians of Ukrainian mobile telephone network operator Kyivstar fill up jerrycans with fuel from a gasoline station in Kyiv, Ukraine on Nov. 30, 2022.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Stopping off at a service station before their rounds, the team members filled up eight 20-liter (5.3 gallon) jerrycans with diesel fuel for a vast tank under a generator that relays power up a 60-foot cell tower in a suburban village that has had no electricity for days.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s one of many Ukrainian towns that have had intermittent power, or none at all, in the wake of multiple rounds of devastating Russian strikes in recent weeks targeting the country\u2019s infrastructure \u2014\u00a0power plants in particular.<\/p>\n<p>Kyivstar is the largest of Ukraine\u2019s three main mobile phone companies, with some 26 million customers \u2014 or the equivalent of about two-thirds of the country\u2019s population before Russia\u2019s Feb. 24 invasion drove millions of people abroad, even if many have since returned.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"810\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/Ukraine_Russia_War_Maintaining_Mobile_77622jpg-a520d.jpg?w=810\" alt=\"A view of a phone tower belonging to Ukrainian mobile telephone network operator Kyivstar is spotted near Kyiv, Ukraine on Nov. 30, 2022. \" class=\"wp-image-24869104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/Ukraine_Russia_War_Maintaining_Mobile_77622jpg-a520d.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 810w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/Ukraine_Russia_War_Maintaining_Mobile_77622jpg-a520d.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=405 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\"\/><figcaption>A view of a phone tower belonging to Ukrainian mobile telephone network operator Kyivstar is spotted near Kyiv, Ukraine on Nov. 30, 2022. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The diesel generators were installed at the foot of the cell phone towers since long before the invasion, but they were rarely needed. Many Western countries have offered up similar generators and transformers to help Ukraine keep electricity running as well as possible after Russia\u2019s blitz.<\/p>\n<p>After emergency blackouts prompted by a round of Russian strikes on Nov. 23, Kyivstar deployed 15 teams of engineers simultaneously and called in \u201call our reserves\u201d to troubleshoot the 2,500 mobile stations in their service area, Dugrist said.<\/p>\n<p>He recalled rushing to the site of a destroyed cell tower when Russian forces pulled out of Irpin, a suburb northwest of Kyiv, earlier this year and getting there before Ukrainian minesweepers had arrived to give the all-clear signal.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>The strain the war is putting on Ukraine\u2019s mobile phone networks has reportedly driven up prices for satellite phone alternatives like Elon Musk\u2019s Starlink system, which Ukraine\u2019s military has used during the conflict, now in its 10th month.<\/p>\n<p>fter widespread infrastructure strikes last week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky convened top officials to discuss the restoration work and supplies needed to safeguard the country\u2019s energy and communication systems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpecial attention is paid to the communication system,\u201d he said, adding that no matter what the Russia has in mind, \u201cwe must maintain communication.\u201d\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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