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We live in a cell-phone dead zone (ah the joys of living in the mountains). Power outages are frequent and our cell phones are useless without a WiFi connection to the net. Fortunately one of our two ISPs has battery backup and generators, so when we're on backup power we can still get online.
I keep thinking about lofting a repeater in a (tethered) helium balloon so we could bounce off of it to reach the nearest cell tower ... but that would be silly 
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