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Bad Wildbad’s O2 and Vodafone Outage Nears Relief With Mobile Masts This Week

Service vanished when antennas on a heating-plant chimney were removed despite years of prior notice from the site owner.

Overview

  • Telefónica/O2 said technicians would begin installing a mobile mast from September 8 at a site coordinated with the city near St. Bonifatius.
  • Vodafone indicated a temporary mast is expected to go live around September 12 while it continues to search for a permanent location.
  • A long-term replacement could take years because steep, wooded terrain limits viable sites and coverage overlap.
  • The outage, now exceeding two months, disrupted digital parking enforcement, sauna emergency buttons and event coordination, and it hurt tourism services.
  • Residents report being unable to exit contracts as systems show no network fault when a mast is physically removed.