Wireless carriers again brace for massive Northeast storm

The Apple Store on West 14th Street in Manhattan after Hurricane Sandy hit.

(Credit: Marguerite Reardon/CNET)

Wireless carriers hope they can weather Nemo better than Sandy.

With a massive blizzard hitting the Northeast region just months after superstorm Sandy devastated the area, the carriers are working to avoid the same kind of mass outages that previously struck their networks and left hundreds of thousands of people without service.

AT&T said it has an "arsenal of disaster response equipment and personnel on standby." The company has topped off its fuel generators at various cell sites, installed and tested high-capacity backup batteries, as well as "Quick Connect Generator Plugs," and staged additional emergency response equipment in various areas.

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