Sandy seen costing telco, cable hundreds of millions of dollars

Thu Nov 8 22:33:52 UTC 2012

Agreed... I live in the same general vicinity in NJ as Alex and ATT service was pretty much non-existent anywhere there was no power from what I experienced. I have friends on Verizon to whom I've spoken and they didn't seem to notice as large of an impact at all on their cellular service.

-Vinny

-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Rubenstein [mailto:alex at corp.nac.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 9:39 AM
To: 'nanog at jima.tk'; 'nanog at nanog.org'
Subject: Re: Sandy seen costing telco, cable hundreds of millions of dollars

Probably ATT. Many areas of NJ had zero service from them for days. 

----- Original Message -----
From: Jima <nanog at jima.tk>
To: nanog <nanog at nanog.org>
Sent: Wed Nov 07 09:32:25 2012
Subject: RE: Sandy seen costing telco, cable hundreds of millions of dollars

On Tuesday, 2012-11-06, Frank Bulk wrote:
> So which wireless carrier is bringing down the average to 81%?

 A quick skim of the article (again,
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/01/storm-sandy-telecoms-idUSL1E8M1L9Z20121101
) makes me suspect AT&T.  They're mentioned twice in other context, but
there's not a sites-online statistic for them.

 I suppose it's worth noting that this wouldn't be the first time they've
caught flak for their (in)ability to cover NYC sufficiently.

     Jima