MultiVu Video Feed: Cingular Wireless Announces Enhanced Emergency Preparedness Program for 2006 Hurricane Season

Hurricane season is less than a month away and experts are predicting another very active year. Wireless infrastructure is critical for first responders in times of disaster. It's also critical for those affected to be able to connect with family members and loved ones. In the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma last year, the emphasis on better preparation has been a top priority.

Cingular Wireless is expanding its emergency preparedness program for the 2006 hurricane season. At the heart of this multifaceted program are two new mobile command centers that can be brought into an affected area quickly, providing full communications capabilities as well as working and sleeping quarters for Cingular employees. The objective: making sure wireless service can be restored as quickly as possible.

Cingular will introduce two new two mobile command centers called mobile access command headquarters (mach 1 and mach 2) to its hurricane and disaster relief efforts. These fully-equipped, completely self-sufficient centers can be rapidly deployed into an affected area where they can be set up and operating within two hours of arrival. They are equipped with generators, a satellite dish for constant communications, LAN connectivity and a PBx phone system.

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NEWS: Cingular Wireless rolls out mobile command centers to help restore service when disaster strikes

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SOUNDBITES:

-- Tina Brown, Director, Continuity Planning and Crisis Management,

Cingular Wireless

-- Dan Norman, Vice President and General Manager, North Florida,

Cingular Wireless

-- Moe Mustafa, Regional Vice President, Network Operations, Southeast,

Cingular Wireless

-- Kenneth Stephens, Area 4 Coordinator, Florida Department of Community

Affairs, Division of Emergency Management

B-ROLL INCLUDES: ***Training center footage ***Mobile Access Command Headquarters ***Aerial shots of the center***Generators, Tents, Medical Facilities, emergency communications vehicles, HAZMAT***Press conference***

VIDEO PROVIDED BY: Cingular Wireless

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