In my last summary, I made a comment I didn't know what the network
disaster recovery team meant.
AT&T recovery efforts
3000 recovery team members
14 Satellite Cell on Light Truck (SatCOLT)
- 1 in Tallahassee, 2 in Naples, 4 in Florida Keys
- 1 portable cell site St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
3 Emergency Communications Vehicles
50 Drones
Command trailers, hazardous materials response equipment
Verizon recovery efforts
2 Satellite Picocels on Trailers (SPOTs) in the Florida Keys
Refueling and generators at cell towers througout Florida
Hundreds of portable generators
2 Wireless Emergency Communication Centers in Naples (provide charging
stations, phones and computers for the public to contact family and
friends)
Sprint recovery efforts
Sprint reports over 75% of its network is repaired in the southeast and
Puerto Rico.
AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon continue to extend their wireless data,
text and voice plans waiving overage charges in the disaster areas.
Details are different for each carrier, so check their web sites or
customer service.
Federal Aviation Administration recovery efforts
Deployed emergency mobile air traffic control tower to the
international airport on St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Drone authorizations
138 commercial drone operator authorizations for Hurricane Harvey
80 commercial drone operator authorizations for Hurricane Irma
Federal Communicatiosn Commission recovery efforts
Reports at least 8,258,789 cable and wireline subscribers out of
service in Alabama, Florida and Georgia.
Strangely, the number of non-mobile switching centers increased from
1,040 (Sept 13) to 2,188 (Sept 14). I believe this exceeds the number of
cable headends and central offices in Florida. So I don't know what this
number represents or why it increased so much.
The situation is still dire in some locations, but generally the disaster
operations have moved to recovery and restoration. Unless something
significant happens, this is the last summary report about Hurricane Irma
from me.
