East Coast Earthquake 8-23-2011 - comment and a bit of a Christchurch Telco report :)

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 