Frontier Suspends Operations in SC; Carriers and FEMA Ready for Storm
Frontier Communications temporarily suspended work activities in portions of South Carolina as Hurricane Florence approached, it announced Thursday. The storm was downgraded to a Category 2 the same day. “Repair and installation technicians, contact center employees and others will not…
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be executing any work activities during this time,” Frontier said. “Florence will damage power facilities and down lines and trees, which will affect the speed of communications restoration,” said Senior Vice President-Operations, South Region Melanie Williams. AT&T is launching severe weather channels on DirecTV and U-Verse dedicated to Florence coverage, it said. AT&T, CenturyLink and other carriers also have readied emergency resources (see 1809110046). Carrier preparations were laid out in a USTelecom blog. The Federal Emergency Management Agency Thursday urged residents of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Virginia to stay in communication with friends and family using phones, text messages and social media and to stay informed using TV, radio and local government websites.