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Articles tagged with: Emergency and Earthquake
ITU deploys satellite communication equipment in Japan
The ITU says that it has dispatched emergency telecommunications equipment to areas severely affected by the tsunami that struck the coastal areas of Japan following Friday's devastating earthquake measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale. more
Related Tags: itu, thuraya, Japan
Catastrophe Will Not Financially Affect Chile's Telecom Sector
.. possible to get fuel for the back-up power generators. Once the initial emergency passed, Entel, Telefonica Chile and Movistar managed to restore partial coverage in the epicenter zone. Telsur, regional operator between the VIII and X regions more
Related Tags: insurance, coverage, telefonica-chile, Chile
TsF Sends Aid Team to Site of Chile Earthquake
.. non-governmental organization specialised in telecommunications in emergency situations. On the web: Telecoms Sans Frontiers more
Related Tags: telecoms-sans-frontiers, airport, Chile
WiMAX Hotspots to be Deployed in Haiti
A network of WiMAX and Wi-Fi hotspots is to be set up in Haiti to assist in communications services for the ITU following the recent earthquake. Singapore-based smartBridges Solutions will be shipping ten WiMAX base stations and 40 Customer Premises Equipment devices to Haiti, which will be used to set up 100 wireless hotspot locations in Port-au-Prince and other earthquake-stricken towns in Haiti. more
Related Tags: wimax, wi-fi, port-au-prince, wi-fi-hotspots, Haiti
U.S. Team Assesses Haiti's Communications Needs
A U.S. team is on-the-ground in Haiti evaluating the status of the country's communications infrastructure and services following the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12th. The team was deployed in response to a request from Director General Montaigne Marcelin of Conseil National des Telecommunications (Conatel), the communications agency in Haiti, in coordination with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). more
Related Tags: usaid, conatel, Haiti
TSF Sends Team to Haiti to Rebuild Shattered Communications
The emergency telecoms charity, Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF) has sent a team to Haiti following the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that has, amongst many other problems - severely disrupted communications. more
Related Tags: telecoms-sans-frontieres, tsf, charity, port-au-prince, united-nations, Haiti
Telecoms Aid Charity Still Working in Earthquake Hit Indonesia
..illion people were affected. Reacting to those emergencies, a TSF team of specialists in emergency telecommunications deployed to Padang on October 2nd to provide communications support in the affected areas. As soon as TSF's experts arrived on more
Related Tags: telecoms-sans-frontiers, Indonesia
Mobile as Media Platform in the Global South
..ing only with emergency calls into a broader information service which handles any kind of query from the hundreds of thousands of Filipinos working in the Gulf region and elsewhere.The report can be downloaded from the Internews website. Inte more
Related Tags: sim-card, sms, text-messaging, rural, itu, text-messages, satellite, bomb, baghdad, health, fm-radio, aol, farmers
Telecoms Charity Sends Aid to Pakistani Earthquake Victims
..eacting to the 6.5 earthquake in Pakistan Tĩlĩcoms Sans FrontiĬres (TSF) deployed a team of emergency telecommunications specialist on Friday. TSF's team which includes a volunteer of the Asian Institute of Technology took off from its Asian more
Related Tags: pccw, rsa, vodafone, tsf, vodafone-group, connect, Pakistan
MTC, operators agree to create emergency network
.. operators and the transport and communications ministry (MTC) agreed on Friday to create a special emergency network to guarantee telephony communications in the case of a future natural disaster such as the earthquake that occurred on Wednesday, MT more
Related Tags: police, fiber-optic, telmex, health, communications-ministry, mtc
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