Email ABC Alice Springs By Stewart Brash and Samantha Jonscher Posted March 07, 2020 08:10:44 Photo: Santa Teresa, 85km from Alice Springs, was without phones for more than 30 hours recently. (Supplied: NTPFES) Related Story: ‘No consequences’: Calls for urgent action as Territorians go without food, power during mobile blackouts Related Story: ‘Desperate for food’: Major mobile outage in Central Australia leaves locals with no money Related Story: ‘Not worth a pinch of s***’: NBN, phones were destined to ‘crap out’ in fire crisis, resident says Map: Alice Springs 0870 Telstra says the stations that provide landline and mobile phone coverage to some remote communities in Central Australia are not robust enough to withstand several days of cloud cover. Key points:Under days of cloud cover, solar-powered Telstra stations do not charge and can run empty, resulting in no phone coverageThe telco’s staff are tackling bushfire reconstruction on the eastern seaboard, removing staff from the regionOutages mean ATMs can’t be used and power cards can’t be purchased — the pre-paid electricity system used in remote communities The region has received significant rainfall recently thanks to ex-cyclone Esther, and as a result several communities have gone without phone coverage for more than…