Multiple tubing-side antennas or casing-side antennas for maintaining communication in a wellbore

An assembly comprising:

• a casing string positionable in a wellbore in which a tubing string having a tubing-side antenna coupled thereto is positioned, the tubing string being movable with respect to the casing string from a first position to a second position in the wellbore in response to a force, the casing string comprising:
• a first casing-side antenna coupled at a first location on the casing string to communicatively couple to the tubing-side antenna in the first position and to be out of a communication range with the tubing-side antenna in the second position;
• and
• a second casing-side antenna coupled at a second location that is spaced a distance from the first location on the casing string to communicatively couple to the tubing-side antenna in the second position.

A method comprising:

• communicatively coupling a first tubing-side antenna to a casing-side antenna in response to a tubing string being positioned at a first position in a wellbore in which a casing string having the casing-side antenna coupled thereto is positioned, the tubing string comprising the first tubing-side antenna coupled at a first location on the tubing string and a second tubing-side antenna coupled at a second location that is spaced a distance from the first location on the tubing string;
• communicatively decoupling the first tubing-side antenna to the casing-side antenna in response to the tubing string being moved to a second position by a force such that the first tubing-side antenna is out of communication range with the casing-side antenna;
• and
• communicatively coupling the second tubing-side antenna to the casing-side antenna in response to the tubing string being at the second position.