Many cell towers failed because they didn’t have backup power supplies after Hurricane Katrina hit the U.S. Gulf Coast in 2005. A wide panel of experts appointed by the Federal Communications Commission found that backup power should be required to be installed at all cell towers. In May of 2007 the FCC ruled that all cell towers in the United States must have a minimum of eight hours of backup power in case a tower should lose its regular power source. (See: Cell Carriers Fight FCC over Backup Power). Wireless companies fought the FCC’s regulations claiming they were illegally drafted and would create a huge economic and bureaucratic burden. The wireless companies argued that local zoning rules, structural limitations and cost would make the backup rule impossible and impractical to implement. In October the FCC agreed to allow exemptions to the rule. Companies would be given six months to explain why individual towers couldn’t meet the regulations.
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