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To: HPilot who wrote (701046)	9/9/2005 4:07:23 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

Assuming they weren't blown down or otherwise seriously damaged... which is a pretty big assumption. Wait for Bell South to quantify some numbers when they give a financial update.

To: HPilot who wrote (701046)	9/9/2005 4:31:21 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

Demand for Satellite Phones Rallies After Katrina left thousands without phone service and other communications, survivors and emergency responders were forced to stay in touch by any means possible. Fortunately, they were not forced to resort to smoke signals. Most of the Gulf Coast from Louisiana to Florida had no regular telephone or wireless service. Thousands of the switches and cell towers that form the region's telecommunications network were lucky is they were still standing. According to a memo from the Homeland Security Dept., the telecommunications "infrastructure in New Orleans, Biloxi, and Gulfport is considered to be total write-off." BellSouth (NYSE:BLS), the biggest local phone company in the Southeast, estimates that up to 750,000 customers were without phone service. Experts say it could take over a month to restore phone services after the flooding subsides and affected areas become accessible. Emergency-service providers relied on satellite phones to rely information John Dark, of the satellite phone provider Globalstar, says his company is overrun with orders for phones in the wake of Hurricane Katrina calling the demand "astronomical".....