Re: East Coast Earthquake 8-23-2011 - comment and a bit of a Christchurch Telco report :)

Don Gould wrote:

Many many people use cordless phones and don't have a non-powered/corded phone any more.

After the 22nd we had a national campaign to get old corded phones to Christchurch. 5,000 were collected. (Now when you consider the country has a population of 4m and Christchurch has ~360k, 5,000 phones is quite a few).

So the "old corded phones" were to be distributed to those who have copper/POTS service? Kinda' off-topic, but what was the situation like regarding radio/television coverage during the event? --Michael