Telecoms Sans Frontiers, the Vodafone Foundation and Ted Turner’s...
Telecoms Sans Frontiers, the Vodafone Foundation and Ted Turner’s U.N. Foundation deployed assets to earthquake- stricken Haiti, the organizations said. Most of the communications into the area appear to have been disrupted, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon told journalists Wednesday…
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morning in New York. Channels of communication are very limited, he said referring to attempts to contact the area by satellite. TSF deployed a team with emergency telecom, satellite mobile and fixed telecommunications gear from Panama. Inmarsat, Eutelsat and AT&T supported the mission along with Vizada, AT&T, Cable and Wireless, PCCW Global and regional groups from France. The mission to Haiti is the fifth since 2003 for Telecoms Sans Frontiers, which will send more gear from its Paris headquarters. Inmarsat is offering additional support to government and other organizations in the region that join the relief efforts. Inmarsat can reallocate its spotbeams to high demand areas to make sure spectrum is available if necessary, it said. Spacenet is also offering help through its existing services to the country, a spokesman said. The company provides some VSAT service to the country’s national bank and can be used during the emergency, he said.