Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of

Fri Sep 22 03:53:21 UTC 2017

This summary status is a bit different.  Instead it is a report about 
what we don't know, and estimate how much we don't know based on official 
reporting.

The FCC DIRS report is based on outages reported by service providers. 
Almost no local providers have been able to file either a positive or 
negative report on the DIRS website. So the data is very incomplete.

Electric Services
    Puerto Rico: 1,569,796 customers out of service (100%)

    U.S. Virgin Islands: 90% of grid on St. Thomas and St. John destroyed 
by Hurricane Irma, a few critical facilities re-energized.  25,000 
customers on St. Croix out of service after Hurricane Maria, but may be 
able to re-energize most of the St. Croix grid on Friday.

Internet Services

    All submarine cables and landing stations appear operational. 2 
colocation data centers on Puerto Rico appear to be operational.  I 
couldn't tell if there any of the old Internet Exchange Points 
were still operating, or had ceased before the hurricanes.

    Puerto Rico:
       Approximately 880 networks out of 1200 not reachable (24 out 48 
ASN).

     U.S. Virgin Islands:
       Approximately 13 networks out of 70 not reachable (2 out of 6 ASN)

Public Safety Services

   Public Safety Answering Points (9-1-1 centers)
     Puerto Rico: 2 out of 2 PSAPs reporting.  2 operating normally.
     US Virgin Islands: 2 out of 2 PSAPs reporting. 2 operating without 
automatic location identifier

    NOAA Weather Forecast Office
       Puerto Rico: Office on backup generation, weather RADAR offline, 1 
of 2 Weather Radio transmitters offline

       US Virgin Islands: Served by San Juan, PR WFO, 1 of 1 Weather Radio 
transmitter offline

Wireless Services

    Puerto Rico: (1703 cell sites out of 1789)
      95% of cell sites out of service. 48 out of 78 counties with 100% of 
cell sites out of service.

    U.S. Virgin Islands: (82 cell sites out of 107)
      77% of cell sites out of service.

Cable and Wireline Systems

     Puerto Rico (est. 11 companies-ILEC, CLECs and Cable in LATA)
        FCC summary implies no companies have reported yet.
        Large percentages of consumers without cable or wireline service

     U.S. Virgin Islands (est. 3 companies-ILEC, CLECs and Cable in LATA)
        FCC summary implies no companies have reported yet.
        Large percentage of consumers without cable or wireline service

Broadcast facilities

   Puerto Rico
     34 TV stations-not including repeaters, translators, boosters
        1 TV station reporting - 1 station out of service
        33 TV stations not reporting (public reports no TV stations 
operating on air)

     141 radio stations-not including repeaters, translators
         141 radio stations not reporting (public reports estimate a dozen 
radio stations operating on air)

     U.S. Virgin Islands
       5 TV stations- not including repeaters, translaters, boosters
          5 TV stations not reporting

        26 radio stations-not including repeaters, translators
          26 radio stations not reporting