August 19, 2007
Engineers work to reconnect Peru
Technicians and engineers from Telecoms Sans Frontieres have arrived in Peru to help the earthquake recovery effort. The BBC reports.
"The five-strong team will deploy satellite telephone and internet access in three centres - at Pisco, where the quake hit hardest, Ica and Chincha.
Julie Cazenave, who is leading the team, said: "There is a lot of confusion right now because there is little information from the areas hit."
The priority will be to establish telecoms at the airport in Pisco.
Telecoms Sans Frontieres (TSF) is charity that works with the United Nations and the European Commission's Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO) to restore communications in disaster-hit areas and the developing world.
"There are no power lines to charge phones. In the affected areas there are no landlines, no internet," said Ms Cazenave. In the capital Lima the telephone and internet was working well, she said.
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