[143978] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: East Coast Earthquake 8-23-2011 - comment and a bit of a
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Painter)
Wed Aug 24 20:19:02 2011
From: "Michael Painter" <tvhawaii@shaka.com>
To: "Don Gould" <don@bowenvale.co.nz>,
<nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:18:22 -1000
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Don Gould wrote:
> Many many people use cordless phones and don't have a non-powered/corded
> phone any more.
>
> After the 22nd we had a national campaign to get old corded phones to
> Christchurch. 5,000 were collected. (Now when you consider the country
> has a population of 4m and Christchurch has ~360k, 5,000 phones is quite
> a few).
So the "old corded phones" were to be distributed to those who have copper/POTS service?
Kinda' off-topic, but what was the situation like regarding radio/television coverage during the event?
--Michael
