Re: Hurricane Irma: Florida, Puerto Rico and U.S. VI

[Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>]

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.