On Thu, 5 Oct 2017, Jean-Francois Mezei wrote:
Statistics may look bad showing 100,000 without power. But if it is a
single break by a branch it is easy to fix compared to having 1000
breaks by 1000 branches. So again, statistics don't give the full story
on the real extent of damage.
The FCC is a passive entity collecting only the outage details service
providers choose to voluntarily share. Data about cell sites is from the
Wireless Resiliency Cooperative Framework and any other wireless carriers
which choose to provide data.
https://www.fcc.gov/wireless-resiliency-cooperative-framework
https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/60001707365.pdf
This is the data collected by DIRS:
Wireline Carriers
CLLI code of switches/STPs that are out
Names of PSAPs that are out
Estimated users out of service
Major facilities out of service (> 192 DS3)
Very short status description of the effects of event (e.g., “No major
equipment out”)
Wireless Carriers
CLLI code of MSCs/STPs that are out
Total cell sites out in disaster area
Very short status description
