Cingular Wireless' Network is Prepared for Tropical Storm Bonnie and Hurricane Charley
12 Agosto 2004 - 9:51PM
PR Newswire (US)
Cingular Wireless' Network is Prepared for Tropical Storm Bonnie
and Hurricane Charley Carrier Executing Emergency Preparedness
Plans As Storm Hits Florida Panhandle and Threatens Florida Keys
LAKE MARY, Fla., Aug. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Tropical Storm Bonnie has
made landfall along Florida's Panhandle and Hurricane Charley is
approaching the Florida Keys and Southwest Florida. Cingular
Wireless wants its customers to know it is prepared and ready to
respond as needed to keep them in contact with family, friends and
colleagues. "Wireless devices have become a critical communications
tool for staying in touch with friends, colleagues and loved ones,
especially during emergency situations," Dave Cundiff, Executive
Director of Network Operations for North Florida. "Not only are
ordinary citizens able to keep in touch, but emergency responders
throughout the state use Cingular Wireless as a communications
backbone during severe weather." Cingular Wireless is Prepared *
Cingular's Regional Network Operations Center (RNOC) monitors and
maintains its wireless network 24 hours a day, seven days a week so
they can assess and respond to emergency situation within minutes.
* Towers and switching centers are designed and built to withstand
hurricane-force winds. * As electrical outages are common during
storms, Cingular's switching centers have back-up emergency
generators. Cell sites have high- capacity battery back-up and some
have emergency generators, ensuring a secure source for power, if
needed. * Cingular has Cellular on Wheels (known as "COWs"), which
are self- contained mobile cell sites that can be towed or driven
into an area to provide extra call capacity or to restore
communications following a disaster. * Smaller than a "COW" are
"COLTs" - or Cellular on Light Trucks, which are vehicles that can
be driven wherever a mobile cell site is needed and include two
masts for microwave antennas. * Cingular Wireless has 20 years of
experience in providing wireless communications during severe
weather. * To ensure that emergency responders have access to
wireless communications, Cingular has deployed twenty phones to the
Tallahassee Branch of the American Red Cross and ten to Florida's
Emergency Operations Center with hundreds of additional phones set
aside for other state emergency agencies who may need them.
DATASOURCE: Cingular Wireless CONTACT: Dawn Benton of Cingular
Wireless, +1-404-236-5305, or cell, +1-404-202-6335, or Web site:
http://www.cingular.com/
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