Sprint’s Network and Emergency Response Team Ready for the 2016 Hurricane Season
May 26 2016 - 10:37AM
Business Wire
Sprint’s Emergency Response Team has supported
more than 6,100 deployments, providing voice, broadband data,
cellular, and satellite infrastructure for both crisis and special
events
Sprint is ready to help customers stay connected and mitigate
impact to its network if a hurricane makes U.S. landfall during the
2016 hurricane season which runs from June 1 to November 30.
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Sprint Satellite Cell Site on Light
Trucks (SatCOLT) stand ready for deployment (Photo: Business
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On the eve of the season, many weather experts are predicting an
active tropical storm season with an increase in activity as
compared to the past three seasons. Sprint’s experienced Emergency
Response Team stands ready, having provided voice, broadband data,
cellular, and satellite infrastructure for more than 6,100 crisis
and special events since 2001.
“Wireless communication during and after a storm is vital,” said
Joe Meyer, vice president, Sprint Network Performance. “Our
customers and first responders can be confident in relying on
Sprint during an emergency. Our extensive planning and preparedness
for storms and other crisis-related events enables us to quickly
respond and restore any impacted services.”
Advance Preparation for Hurricane Season
In order to protect its wireless networks from the impact of a
tropical storm and help keep customers connected during a natural
disaster, Sprint has taken various preparedness measures,
including:
- Investing billions of dollars in
coastal states from Maine to Texas, including investment in new
cell site equipment, batteries, and greater fiber backhaul.
- Installing hundreds of permanent
generators with automatic cutover switches in communities along the
Gulf coast to minimize impacts from commercial power failures
during a storm.
- Delivering new portable generators to
coastal areas for site restoration.
- Performing routine maintenance checks
and fuel top-offs on fixed and portable generators.
- Pre-staging rapidly deployable mobile
satellite infrastructure in high-risk locations.
- Conducting emergency readiness
exercises to help ensure engineering and operations teams, the
Emergency Response Team, and other functional incident management
groups are prepared.
Immediate Storm Response
Once an event occurs, Sprint’s Enterprise Incident Management
Team will move quickly to:
- Assess impacted areas from a local
engineering command center.
- Inspect the local wireless network
after landfall to assess damage.
- Work with local public safety and power
company officials to coordinate damage repair and recovery
efforts.
- Provide any local public safety
government agency in states where an official “state of emergency”
has been declared with emergency communications assistance,
including 14 days of service free of charge for up to 25 Sprint ERT
wireless devices.
To help wireless consumers prepare for a storm this season,
Sprint offers tips such as the importance of sending text messages
instead of calling, and keeping mobile devices and batteries fully
charged.
To learn more, visit Sprint’s Emergency Response Team Facebook
page. Public safety officials seeking information about services
from Sprint ERT should call 1-888-639-0020 or email
ERTRequests@sprint.com.
About Sprint:
Sprint (NYSE: S) is a communications services company that
creates more and better ways to connect its customers to the things
they care about most. Sprint served more than 58.8 million
connections as of March 31, 2016 and is widely recognized for
developing, engineering and deploying innovative technologies,
including the first wireless 4G service from a national carrier in
the United States; leading no-contract brands including Virgin
Mobile USA, Boost Mobile, and Assurance Wireless; instant national
and international push-to-talk capabilities; and a global Tier 1
Internet backbone. Sprint has been named to the Dow Jones
Sustainability Index (DJSI) North America for the past five years.
You can learn more and visit Sprint at www.sprint.com or
www.facebook.com/sprint and www.twitter.com/sprint.
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SprintRoni Singleton,
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