<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Just curious - this post notes that fiber lines might be disrupted, but do the carriers not have portable mini-cells anymore? Is VSAT for backhaul just too expensive for them to bother with it?<div><br></div><div>I feel like in prior decades getting temp service in disaster areas seemed to be the norm...</div><div><br></div><div>Charles<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Oct 11, 2024, at 1:20 PM, Mark Borchers via Outages <outages@outages.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-adn gmail-ads" style="border-left:none;padding:0px;display:flex;font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><div class="gmail-gs" style="margin:0px;min-width:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px;width:initial"><div class="gmail-"><div id="gmail-:307" class="gmail-ii gmail-gt" style="direction:ltr;margin:8px 0px 0px;padding:0px;font-size:0.875rem;overflow-x:hidden"><div id="gmail-:308" class="gmail-a3s gmail-aiL" style="direction:ltr;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:small;line-height:1.5;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;overflow:auto hidden"><div dir="ltr">Does anyone have any information on ATT's Internet restoration efforts in western North Carolina beyond the abbreviated status on their outage page? I'm aware that ETR's will vary widely by location. However, most areas are getting power back, so at this point it should be a matter of repairing damaged fiber. 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