As Tropical Storm Andrea neared the East Coast...
As Tropical Storm Andrea neared the East Coast Friday, several communications companies said they were preparing. AT&T triggered what it called its “storm preparedness process” and “topped off fuel at generators positioned at cell sites, installed and tested high-capacity back-up…
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batteries at cell sites, installed ‘Quick Connect Generator Plugs'” at many of them and made sure to include other emergency equipment at certain locations, with a focus on Florida, the telco said (http://soc.att.com/ZVEK1n). AT&T “may have some outages,” it said. Verizon Wireless described its preparations in South and North Carolina, with teams at the ready as well as infrastructure such as cell on wheels, cell on light trucks and generators on trailers (http://yhoo.it/18TEz7a). It promised real-time monitoring of the network and said it remains confident in its system. Comcast activated its emergency procedures in the Panhandle region and was planning to deploy teams to assess the service “within hours of the storm’s passage,” the company said (http://bit.ly/12wtTfS). Before the storm, Comcast was focused on staging workers and equipment where potentially needed and arranging for backup generators and sister call centers, it said.