The County is aware of T-Mobile cell tower outages in the western region of Rockingham County in the last month. T-Mobile has informed us that the towers acquired during the Sprint acquisition must be upgraded to current T-Mobile equipment to continue to provide service in that area. There may be intermittent outages continuing in the areas that have been upgraded for a while as they resolve technical issues inherent in the installation of new equipment. The next scheduled upgrade, which will create an outage in the Broadway-Timberville area, will occur during the first week of December. The outage will likely last a few days, with intermittent outages following the initial outage. The new equipment, once fully in place, will provide better coverage and more 5G availability.