Cingular Wireless preparing for 2006 hurricane season

Posted May 9th 2006 5:12PM by Brian White
Filed under: Cellular, Mobility, Hardware, Short Range, Business

This is a headline we probably would not have seen pre-2005, but now, it's good PR for the Cingular folks. Cingular has prepared a "checklist" of sorts to prepare hurricane-prone areas for communications emergencies.

It's good to know that cell sites along the Gulf Coast have backup generators, batteries and centralized monitoring systems that can tell the Cingular NOC when a problem occurs -- like being hit by hurricane-force winds. In addition, COWs (Cellsites On Wheels) can be moved into place to provide temporary coverage in the event a stationary site becomes completely unusable.

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