East Coast Earthquake 8-23-2011 - comment and a bit of a Christchurch Telco report :)
Michael Painter
tvhawaii at shaka.com
Thu Aug 25 00:18:22 UTC 2011
Don Gould wrote:
> Many many people use cordless phones and don't have a non-powered/corded
> phone any more.
>
> After the 22nd we had a national campaign to get old corded phones to
> Christchurch. 5,000 were collected. (Now when you consider the country
> has a population of 4m and Christchurch has ~360k, 5,000 phones is quite
> a few).
So the "old corded phones" were to be distributed to those who have copper/POTS service?
Kinda' off-topic, but what was the situation like regarding radio/television coverage during the event?
--Michael
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