October 29, 2003
Cingular Sites Affected By Fires
Cingular Wireless released a statement late yesterday suggesting customers in Southern California limit calls to emergency/family contacts and use SMS to communicate to help free up the network for emergency workers, reports The Sector.
"Fires in the area affected about 5 percent of Cingular's cell sites in San Diego and 1 percent in the Los Angeles area. Service restoration efforts were under way in accessible areas".
"Cingular added that it is deploying backup generators to augment commercial power losses at cell sites, and it will deploy mobile cell sites, known as COWs, if needed. In addition, Cingular said it is working to donate approximately 1,100 phones to evacuation centers and the American Red Cross chapters in the region", according to RCR Wireless.
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