Comments on: AT&T and T-Mobile Sharing Network Bandwith to Help After Hurricane Sandy

By: michael arazan

michael arazan — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 10:10:00 +0000

T-mo used to charge for roaming and its expensive

By: Champion1229

Champion1229 — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 02:58:00 +0000

I wasn’t trying to be rude or hurtful towards the people impacted but I was just trying to point out something that many people may overlook (the fact that this was in retrospect a low level storm compared to other major storm systems that have moved through in the past decade or so). Living in Florida I understand the level of impact a hurricane can make (especially the higher category ones) and I hope all the best to the Northerners impacted by the storm and I also hope that this serves as a wake up call to the entire Eastern coast that hurricane season isn’t just for people who live in the southern coastal states (Florida, Louisiana, Texas, etc).

By: Diablo81588

Diablo81588 — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 20:07:00 +0000

I don’t pay roaming charges anywhere in the US. I’m not sure what you’re getting at.

By: michael arazan

michael arazan — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 08:45:00 +0000

But will they still charge their customers an arm and a leg for the roaming on their phones?

By: GQGK

GQGK — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 04:36:00 +0000

They have a product to sell, and it’s their job to do so. But they’ve shown a human side apart from tragedy. The whole Obama-phone thing isn’t actually a government program as people seem to thing. It was actually started in 2000 by the major telecommunications companies such as Verizon to help people that needed it (and people heavily abused it too, which doesn’t help the cause).

By: Dave Connor

Dave Connor — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 04:08:00 +0000

Funny how we’re not talking about Verizon not working? I live along the new jersey shore and have a VZW, I never had a problem no how bad the storm was. Not so for AT&T, which my girlfriend has, she lost service in the middle of the storm, and for an entire 24hours after that. Completely unacceptable. My underatanding is that VZW has generators attached to their systems for redundancy, even at the towers. I even saw AT&T branded generators traveling the parkway as service was being restored. I never had any desire to switch to AT&T before this, and after this never will.

By: bitpimpin

bitpimpin — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 03:59:00 +0000

It really is nice to see their human side… unfortunately it’s taken a major disaster to finally see that side… maybe it’s the idealist in me, but I would like to see that more often (not just in times of disaster and tragedy)

By: MikeCiggy

MikeCiggy — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 03:30:00 +0000

No one cares about what category the storm was. Have some compassion instead of being high and mighty because you could have handled what the weather channel is calling a “superstorm” better than us.

By: Tom Z

Tom Z — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 03:23:00 +0000

I’m sure Verizon already has the COWS deployed to the areas with diminished coverage.

By: Jarred Sutherland

Jarred Sutherland — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 02:31:00 +0000

Apparently the pumps MTA uses to remove water from their network were purchased second hand after the construction of the Panama canal .. in 1914. No kidding. Talk about not being prepared AT ALL.

By: Droid Burgundy

Droid Burgundy — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 02:00:00 +0000

Hrmm why can’t they just do this all the time then

By: Tom S

Tom S — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 00:52:00 +0000

Maybe if they forget to turn this off it would actually be good for them. Then they’d both actually have coverage across NJ, where both of them have historically sucked.

By: MB

MB — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 23:01:00 +0000

Bandwidth*

By: fteenz

fteenz — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 22:22:00 +0000

So only people in NY and NJ get this?

By: Diablo81588

Diablo81588 — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 21:46:00 +0000

Well, I was partially right