> If you have nextel you might be out of luck. It turns out many > municipalities have contracts with nextel and use them very heavily. Down > here it is a company called Southern Linc. When the tornado hit enterprise > the cell towers were safe, but soon became overwhelmed with traffic.
There's another problem too, if the power is gone, the cell sites have to run on either generators or batteries. If the generators for the cell sites don't have natural gas lines feeding them, they eventually have to be refueled, something which requires not only crews but access to some places that don't have access with no power. Your random isolated cell site still needs to be gotten to and the generators fed with fuel. When the fuel runs out, so does your cell phone. The other problem is that cell phones rely on the phone service mostly being up and running, if it isn't, you may be lucky and get the "chirp" but not likely! ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
