Yes, that's true. Some New Yorkers though (myself included), did not lose land line dial tone because our local CO was OK, and local calls still went through. Of course most local and long distance traffic that went through the huge Verizon multi-CO building at 140 West St. was not unavailable, but strangely the old AT&T Bell System lines to the 201 area code from the original 212 area code were still operating the whole time. I was able to make calls to 201 during the first 2 weeks even though I couldn't make any other long distance calls.
Peter -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2012 1:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Check out AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile Offer Statements On Hurricane Netwo On Oct 31, 2012, at 2:30 PM, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: > But the CO's still have backup generators, usually well supplied > and regularly tested, at least in my experience. I have *never* > lost land-line service even in the area-wide blackouts of the past > 4 decades here in the northeast US. I never lost it throughout > this hurricane emergency either. > > Peter------------SNIP Peter: Back in 2001 (9/11) to be specific. Land lines were shut down due to other big volume (at least in Chicago). You could get a dial tone but thats about all. Ed -- This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
