TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: Cell Phone Outages During Disasters

Cell Phone Outages During Disasters

Lee Sweet (lee@datatel.com)
Fri, 02 Jun 2006 09:16:45 -0400

This may have been covered here last fall at the time of Katrina or
perhaps even before, but the topic came up for us recently as we're
doing some Disaster Recovery planning and I didn't recall the answer.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9120503/

Is it true that roaming cell phones can't work independently of
resources in the home market? I would have assumed that the databases
they need to refer to make outgoing calls (and perhaps the ones for
inbound calls to be redirected to them in another market) wouldn't be
centralized in the phone's home market, but be located elsewhere. For
instance, perhaps Verizon Wireless would have one or more of these
database resources around its coverage area, not one for each home
market where it's prone to damage in a disaster.

Pointers appreciated!

Lee Sweet
Datatel, Inc.
Senior Telephony and Communications Specialist
How higher education does business.

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Cell: 703-850-2385
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