internet outages / cellular hijinx

[Daniel Marsh]

Did they have generator backup from the beginning, or we these added 
after the fact? Either way, kudos to clear wire. This last week did not 
give me a lot of confidence in the reliability of cellular 
infrastructure during emergencies, at least as provided by t-mobile. My 
cellular connectivity went up and down all week and I encountered a 
large number of total dead zones while out and about, in areas where I 
know coverage existed in the past. I also experienced a lot of 
irregularity to their service. At one point, I was talking to my brother 
in Cleveland and suddenly got cross connected to someone in Pine Lake 
(the Minnesota variety, by the accent). I also would frequently dial 
numbers, only to be told that they did not exist - not that they weren't 
in service (as in a turned off cell-phone), but that that number was 
unassigned. Redialing the number 15 seconds later had about a 50/50 shot 
of connecting.
> I'm an engineer with Clearwire.
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> 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:
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>> 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.
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>>> Of course the cellphone people kept their stuff online... but
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