At 08:30 PM 12/17/2007, Nate Duehr wrote:
... This service will be coming from U.S. carriers who wouldn't even put battery/generator backup on most of their wireless POP's until told to do so by the FCC after Katrina:
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/Dec/10/fcc_ruling_may_spur_generator_demand.html
Even with the new ruling, the FCC only recommends that such sites operate for 8 hours on emergency power.
Hey Nate,
You may get a kick out of this. One of my buddies (an AMSAT member) here in New England worked for the phone company and mentioned one night that he had been dispatched during a miserable snow storm to a cell site with a portable generator as power was out. After hooking it up, he had to stay in his car and "babysit" the generator all night long. When I asked him why he said that "otherwise, the generator would be stolen by the morning!"
73, Tony AA2TX