Companies Work to Repair Phone Service

Telephone and cellphone outages persisted in parts of Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi on Sunday as crews repaired damage caused by Hurricane Rita. Joe Chandler, spokesman for BellSouth, said about 560,000 customers were without service, mainly in northern Louisiana and northern Mississippi. He said crews were at work in areas that weren't severely flooded. San Antonio-based SBC Communications said its core network in Texas “is fully functional, with the exception of a small central office in Sabine Pass,” near hard-hit Port Arthur. Mark Siegel of Cingular Wireless said that “well over half of our sites are up” in Texas and Louisiana.
[SOURCE: USAToday]