Tim Schermerhorn

T-Mobile's network is prepared for Hurricane Debby. Here's how we plan to keep customers connected through commercial power outages: 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 T-Mobile’s network is performing strong through the storm, with previous hardening through permanent backup power solutions at sites along the storm’s anticipated path helping to keep customers connected through commercial power outages. 🔋Generators and batteries have been topped off at key sites such as network switches and local towers, and fueling stations are ready for emergency response vehicles and refueling trucks. 🔗T-Mobile has also positioned network equipment for rapid deployment post-storm as conditions safely allow, including: 🚙T-Mobile’s Mobile Emergency Operations Center: Large RV with network management and monitoring equipment 🚚SatCOLTs and SatCOWs: Satellite cell-on-light-trucks and satellite cell-on-wheels that teams can drive to impacted areas to temporarily restore or boost service 📡Quick-deploy and portable VSATs: Satellite dishes called “Very Small Aperture Terminals” that can provide a layer of coverage across broad areas ⚡Microwave solutions: Network technology that offers high throughput and low latency for better data usage 🔌Generators: Portable power solutions 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗦𝗮𝗳𝗲𝘁𝘆 T-Mobile’s emergency teams are collaborating with federal, state and local agencies, including being in-person at the Florida State Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and coordinating with EOCs in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. This collaboration helps prioritize restoration efforts and address the needs of public safety and other recovery organizations, including the swift deployment of temporary network equipment. Additionally, we are working with FEMA’s Region 4 Regional Emergency Communications Coordination Working Group along with FEMA Disaster Emergency Communications and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Region 4. Agencies needing communications assistance can contact our 24-hour emergency hotline at 888-639-0020 or email at [email protected]. More info: https://lnkd.in/gArGvq9M

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This is about using all of the tools In the toolbox to get broadband to people!

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Innovations and improved fiber deployment techniques introduced by Clearfield in the 3rd wave of fiber technology are enabling Wireless Internet Service Providers (WISPs) to become all-fiber providers. #FastPass

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#vznhn I for one look forward to working with Verizon on offering all customers the ability to have "strengthened mobile signal .... where signals might otherwise be weak". "A neutral host network can allow employees and the general public, no matter their mobile provider, to achieve a strengthened mobile signal via dedicated network infrastructure on a specific premises or campus. Combined with a private network, enterprises can manage both business-critical connected operations (via the private 5G network) and conventional but strengthened public-network connectivity to phones and tablets (via neutral host network), where signals might otherwise be weak." #networkfx #PRV8voice #mcx #publicsafety #UEsupport #SuperNOVA #privatenetworkenablement 

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Life at the intersection of telecoms + utilities. As CenterPoint Energy, Oncor Electric Delivery and others were struggling to restore power to 3M ratepayers after a hurricane Beryl-ed through Texas I was talking with an #electrification colleague. He was lamenting the nature of utilities, generally around #evcharging connections, planning and policies, and now service interruptions. Alas, Texas and ERCOT in the news again! This conversation felt familiar. My first work in the Lone Star State was at the invitation of Voicestream Wireless. They were launching PCS service in DFW, Austin and the Red River Valley and called in legacy contractors from around the country. We were tapped for our specialty: telecom attachments on utility transmission rights of way. Then it struck me, that was 25 years ago. So much has changed since then. Turf contracts were unheard of. Omnipoint Corporation would become T-Mobile. Hutchinson and Voicestream would be replaced by Deutsche Telekom. Mo Katibeh was still in college. The parrot would disappear. Our primary transmission counterparty TXU Energy would change, change and change again, leaving transmission assets with Sempra Oncor Electric Delivery. Focus would shift from market launches and coverage to density and bandwidth. Circuits would be replaced by packet switched networks bringing FTTx, Convergence, Consolidation, Streaming, DAS & Small Cells, #IoT, #telematics and flirtations with autonomy. Utility deregulation would evolve into #ancillaries, #DERs and #resilience. But much hasn't. The tension between emerging technology companies and regulated utilities really hasn't changed that much. The former focus on speed to market; the latter on safety & reliability. So whether its a hurricane or an ice storm, the local service companies don't want to go before the PUC and explain that a third party contributed to outages and restoration. Play it again, Sam. https://lnkd.in/eDXSD-qc

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