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Wireless companies respond rapidly to destruction from Hurricane Katrina.

Publication: Mississippi Business Journal
Publication Date: 26-SEP-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
When Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Mississippi Gulf Coast August 29, Alltel network technicians Mark Lunsford and Vernon Waiters huddled inside their respective Gulfport homes. Even though their houses withstood the category four storm, they lost electricity and were running out of food and water--with no way to communicate to managers in Jackson--when Alltel technicians dispatched from Pensacola located them at a cell site.

The restoration crew sent to repair the network provided Lunsford and Walters with food and water, a 25-kilowatt generator each, and offered them the use of an RV set up for technicians at a nearby staging area. Even though Alltel arranged for both families to be flown out of the damaged area and housed elsewhere, Lunsford and Waiters remained on the Coast to help restore the network--and to celebrate the fourth birthday of Walters'...

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