Extreme weather impacts could cost mobile network operators over $3bn a year by 2050

Stuart Stone
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Mobile infrastructure repair and replacement bills could almost double by 2050 under forecast mid-century climate conditions

The cost to repair and replace mobile network infrastructure damaged by increasingly severe and frequent storms and floods could almost double from $1.7bn to over $3.1bn a year by 2050, as global temperatures...

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