BellSouth ready for active hurricane season

BellSouth released this week that they have made great strides to be prepared for the upcoming hurricane season. One of the most critical issues to BellSouth after a storm is providing power to its network in the event that commercial power is lost. This year, BellSouth has further increased its supply of generators to power the network immediately after a storm hits. In addition, many of BellSouth local digital loop carrier and switching facilities now house permanent generators, some of which are fueled by natural gas and do not require re-fueling.

"Over the past nine months, BellSouth has remained intently focused on restoration efforts in New Orleans and preparations for the 2006 hurricane season. We are enhancing our already robust storm-preparedness activities to ensure that communications services can be maintained, or restored quickly, after any weather-related events," said Bill Smith, BellSouth's chief technology officer.

If you're interested in what other phone providers are doing to prepare for Hurricane Season 2006, you can read these posts on Verizon and Sprint.