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East Coast Earthquake 8-23-2011 - comment and a bit of a Christchurch Telco report :)
- Subject: East Coast Earthquake 8-23-2011 - comment and a bit of a Christchurch Telco report :)
- From: tvhawaii at shaka.com (Michael Painter)
- Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:18:22 -1000
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Don Gould wrote:
> Many many people use cordless phones and don't have a non-powered/corded
> phone any more.
>
> After the 22nd we had a national campaign to get old corded phones to
> Christchurch. 5,000 were collected. (Now when you consider the country
> has a population of 4m and Christchurch has ~360k, 5,000 phones is quite
> a few).
So the "old corded phones" were to be distributed to those who have copper/POTS service?
Kinda' off-topic, but what was the situation like regarding radio/television coverage during the event?
--Michael