internet outages

[d.g.luechtefeld at mac.com]

I'm an engineer with Clearwire.

Most of our sites do indeed have generator backup - our field techs have been refueling them all week.

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On Friday, December 22, 2006, at 11:07PM, "Ralph Sims" <ralph at sims.cc> wrote:
>Generally speaking cellular sites do not have generator backup.  The
>exceptions might key "hub" sites.  
>
>Verizon's cell site that covers the area around 405 and ne 76th st (near
>Denny's) either lost power or was severly degraded so as to drop calls in
>that area.  They were pretty much back on Thursday.  That being said, my
>Verizon EVDO card kept me in contact throughout the disaster virtually
>everywhere else.
>
>On an aside, I don't think Clearwire's sites are backed up with generator
>either.
>
>> Of course the cellphone people kept their stuff online... but
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