Florida’s emergency management division spokeswoman said Monday there were no “major impacts...

network performed as anticipated,” an AT&T spokeswoman said. Sprint Nextel told us of “very minimal” impact in Florida Monday afternoon. “As of this morning, less than 10 of our cell sites in Florida are down due to Isaac,” a Sprint spokeswoman said. “We're concentrating on and preparing for the impacts tonight might bring as the eye of storm continues along Florida’s coast and moves closer to the Gulf Coast states.” Sprint’s affected customers are spread throughout Miami, Tampa and Fort Myers and are “mostly located in places the residents have evacuated,” she said. She was unable to say how many customers may have been affected. The spokeswoman described assessment and mobilization efforts for staff as needed throughout Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi. “The Sprint Emergency Response Team is currently supporting 25 wireless devices with 14 days of free service to any state and local agencies needing communication assistance in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida following the official state of emergency that has been declared in those states,” she said. Florida had more than 65,000 residents without power as of Monday morning, the state’s emergency management division spokeswoman said. Sprint invested nearly $140 million in anticipation of this hurricane season and strongly emphasized its back-up power efforts, it said. The carrier described “hardening 70 percent of the cell sites on Sprint’s Florida networks with permanent generators in case of a loss of local power” and “fully fueling all permanent generators and ensuring the availability of all portable generators necessary to meet the response needs based on Isaac’s current track and intensity,” in a statement Sunday (http://xrl.us/bnnd2f). Verizon Wireless noted an investment of $19 million in Pensacola’s emergency communications, in a Monday statement (http://xrl.us/bnnd22).