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Hubbardston committee backs cellular backups, evaluates Zello for outages
Summary
After a recent outage, the committee ordered five 5G wireless 'pucks' and additional municipal phones to keep essential operations running, and discussed using Zello (push-to-talk) and Wireless Emergency Alerts templates while noting cost and Wi‑Fi dependency concerns.
Town emergency planners described steps to strengthen communications resilience following a recent outage, including purchasing five 5G wireless "pucks" and several municipal cell phones and revisiting use of Zello push-to-talk software.
The presenter said they bought five 5G pucks to keep internet/service available at locations including town hall, the fire department, police and DPW, and picked up two additional cell phones to equip essential staff. "We're going…
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