The FCC reduced its count of the number of counties...
The FCC reduced its count of the number of counties still affected by Sandy to just 76, in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, in its late Monday update of the aftermath of Sandy and reported that most wireless…
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and wireline facilities are now back in service. “As of 10 a.m. this morning, our assessment indicates that the number of cell site outages within the 76-county area has declined to under 9 percent,” said Public Safety Bureau Chief David Turetsky. “For comparison, the data indicate that nearly one-third of cell sites in this area were affected by outages when reporting began last Tuesday morning.” The figures include “many cases where cell sites that are otherwise operational are effectively inoperable because of outages in other parts of the communications infrastructure, which is highly interdependent,” he said. The FCC also reported “continued improvement” in the restoration of cable service throughout the affected areas. AT&T said 97 percent of its cell sites across the area most affected last week by Sandy were up and running Monday. “More than 90 percent of our cell sites across New York City including Manhattan are back in service, up from 80 percent on Thursday,” AT&T said. “We expect to make continued good progress as power and other infrastructure issues are resolved.” AT&T said resources are shifting to “the hardest-hit areas of New York and New Jersey as our network service has been restored to normal or near-normal operational levels in other areas."