Verizon is making “substantial progress” in restoring voice and data...
Verizon is making “substantial progress” in restoring voice and data communication, and has restored backup power to four critical facilities in lower Manhattan and one on Long Island that had incurred severe flood damage and lost commercial power, Verizon said.…
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It’s continuing efforts to restore backup power to “several other” critical switching facilities in lower Manhattan and Queens, it said. Verizon is facing an “increasing challenge” trying to obtain fuel to keep generators delivering backup power to switching facilities in New Jersey and New York, and is working with government officials to try to get more fuel, it said. AT&T said restoration efforts were ongoing, and it would bring charging stations and cell signal generators to locations near New York City food distribution centers. AT&T also made a $250,000 donation to the American Red Cross disaster relief fund, a spokesman said. CenturyLink said the majority of its service territory in New Jersey remains without power, as well as a large portion of its Pennsylvania service territory. Technicians there are continuing to refuel generators to keep phone service operational, a spokeswoman said. CenturyLink also reported “sporadic” phone and broadband outages in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Frontier said it was “seeing progress toward more normalcy” in Pennsylvania, New York and West Virginia. Loss of commercial power remains its “most significant challenge,” with 36 out of 230 central offices in West Virginia running on generator battery power. Several of its central offices in Pennsylvania and New York are running on battery too, and lack of commercial power is slowing restoration of downed poles and cables, it said. Windstream said crews were working to reactivate two switches in New York City that went off Tuesday night; generators had kept the switches at 75 Broad St. operational until a fuel pump in the building’s basement failed due to flooding, the telco said. Windstream expects it will take another three or four days to restore service in the area.