Major wireless carriers have activated their open roaming agreements,
allowing customers of competitors to connect to any working cell tower.
As usual in disasters, text messaging may work even when voice and
data connections don't.
AT released the following statement:
"Hurricane Ida has
My concern is what will happen with ILA sites that traverse through the Orleans
parish and others that are going to be without electricity for many weeks to
come. Eight transmission circuits went into cascading failure last eve. While
not all physically damaged, it will time to assess and begin
Unlike other utilities, I have not seen any outage reports directly from
the major telecommunications companies serving Louisiana and New Orleans.
9-1-1 out of service in three parishes (Orleans, Jefferson, St. Tammany).
100% of power is out in 4 parishes, over 80% power out in 14 parishes.
Statement from Entergy (regional electric power company):
As a result of Hurricane Ida’s catastrophic intensity, all eight
transmission lines that deliver power into the New Orleans area are
currently out of service. When this occurred, it caused a load imbalance
in the area and resulted in
Due to catastrophic electric transmission line failures. All of Orleans
Parish is currently without power. Over 830,000 electric customers in 8
counties have lost power. Approximately 80% of customers in southern
Louisiana have lost power.
Internet connectivity is down to 11% of normal
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