Re: Hawaiian ILEC infrastructure and fire

[TJ Trout <tj () pcguys us>]

I found it interesting that *all*? cellular service on west maui died? Does
every carrier single-home via waves served out of the Lahaina CO? Or maybe
they aren't allowed to have generators in Maui? Seems like they would have
diverse paths to major sites

On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 6:55 PM scott <surfer () mauigateway com> wrote:

> > On Tue, Aug 15, 2023, 5:21 PM scott via NANOG <nanog () nanog org
> >
> >     On 8/11/23 4:06 AM, Mark Tinka wrote:
> >      > It's like a war zone.
> >
> >     Yes, it definitely looks like that. We have connectivity to some of
> the
> >     edges and have put up hotspots, so folks can go to the hotspot areas
> >     and
> >     get internet access.
>
>
> On 8/16/23 12:39 AM, TJ Trout wrote:
>
>  > Scott: Just an FYI that anecdotal reports from social media coming in or
>  > stating that residents have been unable to connect to the Wi-Fi hotspots
>  > that the local government have been promoting in the Lahaina area.
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> I don't have anything to do with that as I work in the core and we got
> the node up for west Maui, so I am done. (:  But I wonder if those are
> different wifis.  I'd imagine the focus now is plant poles, hang fiber
> and get the Access part of the network fully up before getting those up,
> if they're the same ones.
>
> scott