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Tom Pica
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Jenny Weaver
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06/29/2004

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BEDMINSTER, NJ — Verizon Wireless demonstrated today the company’s new, self-contained $500,000 Cell on Light Truck (COLT), a mobile cell site ready for rapid disaster response in Englewood, CO. The COLT can process thousands of calls every hour in the event cell sites or other key communications equipment are damaged or disabled by a community disaster. The 25,000 pound vehicle features two retractable masts, a microwave antenna to link network components, an emergency power generator and a small office and is fully equipped with resources needed during emergencies including equipment, fuel, electrical generators, food, water and cots. The COLT, including the one pictured here, is part of a growing fleet of rapid disaster response vehicles Verizon Wireless has deployed throughout the United States.

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