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To: Mika Kukkanen who wrote (104410)	9/12/2001 8:15:15 AM
From: John Carragher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Devastation in America: Terror overwhelms telecom networks Yesterday’s appalling terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington D.C. left voice networks overwhelmed, but Internet performance held up well. At least two major carriers lost infrastructure in the attacks: a 50,000 line Verizon switch servicing the World Trade Center was destroyed, while a Sprint 75,000 line long-distance switch housed in the basement of one of the twin towers was also destroyed. Verizon said it also lost ten cdmaOne base stations in the Manhattan area, while AT&T issued an advisory saying its network was intact. At one point, AT&T was carrying nearly one million calls a minute.