Puerto Rico Internet exchange is 100% fully operational On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 1:44 PM Yosem Companys <ycompa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> May be of interest, posted on the Startups of Puerto Rico Slack channel > earlier today: > > Marcos Cruz [4:41 AM] > I hope everyone is well, Noob question: Does anyone know for how long do > the power plants of cell towers run on diesel? > > Mike Rosado:house_with_garden: [8:03 AM] > I spoke with my parents in Carolina, and they have been without power > since 4am > [8:03 AM] > Sprint towers are down, but AT&T towers are running. > > Mike Rosado:house_with_garden: [8:23 AM] > I'm part of the volunteer team at the ITDRC and I am on the ITDRC Slack > channel. > We already have many volunteers in Puerto Rico. Should you need > communications help, please send me a private message, and I'll forward it > to them. https://itdrc.org/ (edited) > > M Pilar [9:24 AM] > ~24h in urban zones ~48h in other zones, but if they are large towers they > also have batteries that last 1-8h > > Ariel Zavala [9:32 AM] > What ISPs are up right now? > > Mike Rosado:house_with_garden: [9:39 AM] > Right now Liberty and WorldNet are being brought up. > :+1:1 > > Mike Rosado:house_with_garden: [9:41 AM] > Liberty in some places and not others, after that they return to ATT LTE > > Matt Van [10:35 AM] > Optico is up > :heavy_check_mark:2 > > Tomas Irizarry [10:48 AM] > @mikerostx dude ITDRC sounds super interesting. Do you know if there is > anything like a mobile datacenter where a community could set up a WAN for > services/communication? > > Tomas Irizarry [10:48 AM] > in the event private networks are down > > Mike Rosado:house_with_garden: [10:53 AM] > replied to a thread: > @mikerostx dude ITDRC sounds super interesting. Do you know if there is > anything like a mobile datacenter where a community could set up a WAN for > services/communication? > We (ITDRC) have volunteers with boots on the ground in Puerto Rico. @Ruth > Silva is one of a dozen or more people there working on these efforts. > > Tomas Irizarry [10:55 AM] > Thats amazing. I dont know what I can contribute but I’ll join and see > where I can . (edited) > > Mike Rosado:house_with_garden: [10:57 AM] > Always plenty of ways to contribute and have corporations volunteer their > employees to help those in need. :wink: > > Tomas Irizarry [10:57 AM] > actually.. > [10:57 AM] > now that you bring that up > [10:58 AM] > we’re actually in the middle of deciding what non-profits to disburse our > donation fund to > [10:58 AM] > let me check what the process is and I’ll put in ITDRC for discussion > > Mike Rosado:house_with_garden: [10:59 AM] > When Maria hit :flag-pr: , I was deployed for several weeks to help out. > Trust me, there's plenty to contribute and do. :wink: >
