Hurricane Season 2004 -- Wireless Tips You Need to Know Before Severe Weather Strikes
05 Mai 2004 - 6:40PM
PR Newswire (US)
Hurricane Season 2004 -- Wireless Tips You Need to Know Before
Severe Weather Strikes Cingular Wireless Recommends an Emergency
Communications Plan LAKE MARY, Fla., May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- There
are 152 million wireless users in the U.S. and more than 156
million calls made to emergency numbers each day. With the 2004
hurricane season about to begin Cingular wants consumers to
understand what to expect when they use their cell phones or other
wireless devices during an emergency and what they can do to
prepare - before a hurricane or severe weather hits. "Taking the
time to plan now can make a considerable difference in how much a
hurricane or any severe weather affects your family or business,"
says Dan Norman, vice president/general manager, Cingular
Wireless-North Florida. "Any emergency plan should include a
communications component, too, so that every member of the family
knows who to contact if they get separated." There are many
weather-related events that can put you in a dangerous situation if
you are not ready. According to the National Hurricane Center,
hurricane hazards take many forms: storm surges, tornadoes, high
winds, and flooding. By understanding the potential dangers, you
can help prepare your family to be ready. What can you do to
prepare yourself before severe weather hits? -- Program in all of
your emergency contact numbers. Program in 9-1-1, the police
department, fire station and hospital contact numbers as well as
your family members into your cell phone so you don't have to think
about it during and after an emergency. -- Have a family
communications plan in place. Designate someone out of the area as
a central contact, and make certain all family members know who to
contact if they become separated. -- Keep your wireless phone
batteries charged at all times. Have an alternate plan to recharge
your battery in case of power outages. -- Keep your wireless phone
dry. The biggest threat from hurricanes is water versus wind damage
so keep your equipment safe from the elements. -- Forward your home
number to your wireless number in the event of an evacuation. That
way you will get incoming calls from your landline phone. --
Consider additional cell phones for your family's use. If you want
to add additional cell phones to your wireless service, remember to
do so prior to the emergency. What can you do to get through to
loved ones during an emergency? -- Try short/text messaging service
(SMS). Many phones today are SMS capable. Also, if you have a
wireless data device such as a BlackBerry, you can use its
messaging capabilities to communicate. -- Use a landline phone if
it is available. In many instances, landline service may still be
available in your area so this still may be an option. -- Keep
non-emergency calls to a minimum; limit your calls to the most
important ones. Chances are that if there is severe weather, many
people will be attempting to place wireless calls to loved ones,
friends and business associates. If the landline phones are not
working, this probability increases. -- Wait 10 seconds before
redialing a call. On many wireless phones, to re-dial a number, you
simply push "send" after you've ended a call to redial the previous
number. If you do this too quickly, the data from the phone to the
cell sites does not have enough time to clear before you've resent
the same data and may contribute to network congestion. About
Cingular Wireless Cingular Wireless, a joint venture between SBC
Communications (NYSE:SBC) and BellSouth (NYSE:BLS), serves more
than 25 million voice and data customers across the United States.
A leader in mobile voice and data communications, Cingular is the
only U.S. wireless carrier to offer Rollover(SM), the wireless plan
that lets customers keep their unused monthly minutes. Cingular has
launched the world's first commercial deployment of wireless
services using Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE)
technology. Cingular provides cellular/PCS service in 43 of the top
50 markets nationwide, and provides corporate e-mail and other
advanced data services through its GPRS, EDGE and Mobitex packet
data networks. Details of the company are available at
http://www.cingular.com/ . DATASOURCE: Cingular Wireless CONTACT:
Dawn Benton of Cingular Wireless, +1-404-236-5305, or Web site:
http://www.cingular.com/
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