292 cellular towers out of service due to generator failure

Thornton thornton-nanog at cierragroup.com
Tue Sep 7 11:29:40 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 15:41, Sean Donelan wrote:
> Due to a generator failure, 292 Sprint wireless towers in Polk, Pasco,
> Hillsborough, Pinellas, Manatee, Hardee, Sarasota and Charlotte counties
> were disrupted.  There is no estimated time for restoration of power
> to the Sprint switch serving the towers.
> 

For that many towers to have power generator issues makes you wonder if
they had power generators to begin w/. Maybe they just had a few hours
worth of UPS power or something.

Thornton
Cierra Group
www.cierragroup.com
Efficient Licensing and Consulting




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