Actually many do help; it just didn't work out for this one NOLA person relocated to Peoria. Oh well :-(

Joseph wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 17:35:15 GMT, "Quick"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I was kind of thinking along the lines of providing
>> relief/service to disaster victims and not
>> differentiating whether they are your customer or not or
>> if you had service before or not.
>
> T-Mobile opened their network to all whether they were
> customers or not.

That's commendable. How did non-customers get service?

>> How did T-mobile do along those lines? Was the
>> objective to tout T-mobile or non-VZW in general?
>
> Ha! You're talking about tooting their own horn! Name
> any company that doesn't take advantage of a situation to
> make themselves look better!

No. I'm all for that. I was not clear as to the motivation
behind your post. That's all.

-Quick

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In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] says...
> On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 23:48:18 GMT, "Quick"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >Joseph wrote:
> >> On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 08:55:46 -0600, Notan
> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >>> In another thread, one of my suggestions was for the
> >>> cell carriers to do just that. Give away, or provide at
> >>> a deep discount, pre-paid phones, loaded with a certain
> >>> amount of time.
> >>
> >> T-Mobile provided all its New Orleans and gulf coast
> >> subscribers with $50 minimum of prepaid credit so their
> >> phones would work even if they had not bought enough
> >> credit.
> >
> >That's great if you already had service.
>
> Do you know of any other companies that *even* did that?
> - -
>
>
Yeah.

Well... no. As usual, each did something in their own way.

US Cellular, for example, is waiving all roaming fees in Louisiana, and
around Mobile, AL (they have no coverage down there, so this allows
volunteers to go their, use their cell phones, and not incur charges for
being good samaritans).

Sprint has set up a whole web site just for helping out victims:

http://katrina.sprint.com/

And this, released on the 7th:

http://www2.sprint.com/mr/news_dtl.do?id=8060

"Sprint Nextel will automatically issue credits for monthly service for
its wireless customers in the areas hardest hit by the hurricane. In
addition, wireless customers in the affected areas will receive free
long distance calling, roaming and text messaging and overage charges
will not be applied.

"Sprint Nextel will be contacting customers via text message throughout
the week to communicate the billing relief plans specific to them.
Customers should contact Sprint Nextel Customer Care directly for
eligibility information, questions or concerns."

That could work out to a lot more than $50, IMO.

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