Thursday, November 8, 2012

25 percent. cellular base stations have been destroyed


Telecom operators told the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that the hurricane destroyed 25 percent of Sandy. all mast cell base stations and telecommunications infrastructure as many cable services in the 10 states of the USA. There were fewer interruptions than fixed-mobile connectivity cable - media reported.
According to the newspaper "USA Today", none of the telecom companies, or the FCC itself can not currently determine how many customers and how many landline - mobile, had been affected by the disruption of communication. Problems reported for all major communications companies - Verizon Wireless, AT & T, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile USA and Cablevision Systems, Comcast and Time Warner Cable. However, the FCC warned that these gaps may still be more, the repair crew manage to restore damaged and put a new mast base stations. Other damage resulting in areas of the west and north, where the storm moved in from the East Coast. In those areas not yet rated the damage and cellular base stations continue to operate on emergency power, which threatens the exception before the mains supply is restored. Currently, the hurricane Sandy 7-8 million Americans were without electricity. It is not known how many base stations worked or is still working on emergency power.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski said that it is expected that further failure of base stations. Sam CNET reported that the interruption of the network affected "158 counties in states from Virginia to Massachusetts."
The head of the FCC in a statement to the press asked state residents affected by stroke Sandy to make use of the "other communications" beyond voice, such as social media, and e-mails to communicate with family or friends.
The main difficulty in restoring mobile communications is the fact that the restoration of power supply will probably take a few days - in some areas even a few weeks. Operators claim that reach all the base stations, battery replacement and any fuel supplement in the generators is "very difficult, if not impossible in the short term," because part of the road and the same station was damaged by water and snow.
According to Reuters, three offices and logistics centers and communications in New York, in lower Manhattan, Queens and Long Island, belonging to the telecom operator Verizon has been flooded. The center supports the Wall Street in the lobby was 1.5 meters of water.
Sandy hurricane passed over the north-east coast of the U.S. at the beginning of the week. Losses can range from 30 billion to as much as $ 50 billion.

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