Wireless Carriers Better Prepared for 2006

[Hurritrax]

Seems that all carriers are spending some major dollars to be better prepared during this hurricane season..see the link below.

http://www.wirelessweek.com/toc-newsat2direct/06/09/06?starting=7

[Hurricanebob]

That "hardening" of networks is also being done by power companies to swap wooden poles for concrete which is the difference between 105mph and 150mph!

Now if the hurricanes just wouldn't be as strong!

bob

[beachbum_al]

I am glad to hear that they are trying to make the wireless phones service better in case of a hurricane. I have cingular. My husband has cingular and he also has a nextel through work. During Ivan it was Nextel that kept us connected to the outside world. The cingular phones were no use.

[Hurricanebob]

I am glad to hear that they are trying to make the wireless phones service better in case of a hurricane. I have cingular. My husband has cingular and he also has a nextel through work. During Ivan it was Nextel that kept us connected to the outside world. The cingular phones were no use.

During Charlie, my parents lost their Nextel service, my wife lost her signal from Verizon, but ironically our son had at the time a Virgin Mobile and it saved the day.
bob

[skysummit]

I am glad to hear that they are trying to make the wireless phones service better in case of a hurricane. I have cingular. My husband has cingular and he also has a nextel through work. During Ivan it was Nextel that kept us connected to the outside world. The cingular phones were no use.

I work for Verizon Wireless. During Ivan, we lost NO service what so ever. That's why the U.S. Government decided to choose us for natural disasters along the Gulf Coast.

For Katrina, everyone lost service due to the landline telco company that was providing all of us datalinks going underwater. We immediately turned up an emergency microwave network and were back on the air within 2 days. We were literally giving phones to people so they could communicate. All our generators worked.

For this year, we upgrade all our generators to 30kw. The fuels vary from natural gas to propane to diesel...all depending on the location. I'm proud to say we're ready once again.

[Hurricanebob]

I am glad to hear that they are trying to make the wireless phones service better in case of a hurricane. I have cingular. My husband has cingular and he also has a nextel through work. During Ivan it was Nextel that kept us connected to the outside world. The cingular phones were no use.

I work for Verizon Wireless. During Ivan, we lost NO service what so ever. That's why the U.S. Government decided to choose us for natural disasters along the Gulf Coast.

For Katrina, everyone lost service due to the landline telco company that was providing all of us datalinks going underwater. We immediately turned up an emergency microwave network and were back on the air within 2 days. We were literally giving phones to people so they could communicate. All our generators worked.

For this year, we upgrade all our generators to 30kw. The fuels vary from natural gas to propane to diesel...all depending on the location. I'm proud to say we're ready once again.

VERY cool, IMO all the wireless companies should have done this! Then they could have gotten the gov't contract. Hopefully the gov't will be as prepared as Verizon....

bob

[timNms]

I am glad to hear that they are trying to make the wireless phones service better in case of a hurricane. I have cingular. My husband has cingular and he also has a nextel through work. During Ivan it was Nextel that kept us connected to the outside world. The cingular phones were no use.

I work for Verizon Wireless. During Ivan, we lost NO service what so ever. That's why the U.S. Government decided to choose us for natural disasters along the Gulf Coast.

For Katrina, everyone lost service due to the landline telco company that was providing all of us datalinks going underwater. We immediately turned up an emergency microwave network and were back on the air within 2 days. We were literally giving phones to people so they could communicate. All our generators worked.

For this year, we upgrade all our generators to 30kw. The fuels vary from natural gas to propane to diesel...all depending on the location. I'm proud to say we're ready once again.

Wish ya'll would have given us a phone No one in this area had service after Katrina. That's one of the things that made it so bad around here. We could not get in touch with family to check on them. Certainly couldn't drive anywhere due to trees and power poles down on roads.

[Hurricanebob]

I read in our county EOC literature that a little unknown factoid on cell phones is that usually text messaging works when you have no service.

I wonder just how true that really is... Any thoughts on the validity?

bob

[Jagno]

Spoke to my Sprint rep and she said that they haven't resolved any of the problems encountered last year from Katrina and Rita so to expect more of the same should another disaster hit.

[george_r_1961]

Sprint isnt bad. It worked most of the time here after Isabel and since my phone is trimode if sprint was down it simply looked for another network.

I was in contact with lindaloo, who also has sprint, in the early morning hours of that fateful day Katrina hit; she lost service about the time the winds hit 90 mph It took days for them to pull the network back up down there but remember we are talking about Katrina.

[HurricaneQueen]

After and during Wilma, we lost Cingular which I depended upon for computer service with my PDA. However, our other cell phones are with Verizon and both worked beautifully. Of course, you can't compare a land falling Wilma with a Katrina. During Charlie, we never lost service with Verizon which was our only carrier at the time. I now have a Verizon air card and I am hoping that it will stay up and running all season!

Lynn