wire-sneaker-mobile relay (Score 1)

Our township is on the end of a long telephone line which not infrequently goes down. As does much of the power The local mobile mast will cease functionig immediatey - even though it still provides a signal and connects phones. The local exchange continues for several days. On one occasion like this we set up a wire-sneaker-mobile relay where someone on the edge of our area was able to get a mobile signal at the far end of the yard and had a working local phone connection in the house. The local doctor would call them on the landline from their practice, they would run down to the end of the yard and phone from there by mobile to ambulance control. We tested it, but fortunately never needed to use it in earnest.