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Paging and Voice
Mail services are available in many areas across the
country.
Digital Paging &
Alpha Numeric pagers.
State wide Service's
& local Area Paging
Personal Voice Mail
Boxes
1-800 Numbers
Available
We are also the "Emergency Paging
Provider" for The Miami Dade County
&
Hillsborough County
(Tampa), School Boards.
FLORIDA HURRICANE EMERGENCY
RESPONSE EFFORT HELPING CLIENTS RESUME OPERATIONS
Charley, Frances, Ivan, Jeanne. Not a school
roll call, but the names of four of the most devastating hurricanes
to strike Florida in more than a century. In less than six weeks,
the hurricanes deadly path caused untold heart ache and damages now
estimated in the tens of billions of dollars. Two of the hurricanes,
Frances and Jeanne, both struck land within five miles of each
other, something that has never happened before.
Fortunately, a hurricane emergency response
team from Network Services, LLC responded immediately to urgent
client requests. The company’s Florida headquarters is in Ft.
Lauderdale. Network Services is a business communication service
provider offering wireless messaging, email, and voice products and
services throughout Florida, California, Arizona, and Nevada.
Formed in 1995, Network Services owns and
operates wireless transmission stations that are satellite
controlled as well as telephony switches providing local calling and
wireless coverage throughout its service coverage area. The company
is licensed by the Federal Communications Commission as a Radio
Common Carrier and is authorized to provide Commercial Mobile Radio
Service nationwide.
To date, Network Services has helped restore
service to a wide variety of public and private sector clients state
wide. Below is a brief snapshot of some of these:
DeSoto Memorial Hospital
Originally established in 1913, DeSoto
Memorial Hospital is located in Arcadia, about 87 miles southeast of
Tampa. The 49-bed not-for-profit hospital is governed by a board of
directors and licensed by the State of Florida Department of Health
and Rehabilitative Services. DeSoto Memorial Hospital is a member of
the Florida Hospital Association and the American Hospital
Association.
DeSoto Memorial Hospital provides
comprehensive health care services – from routine physicals and
preventive medicine, to treating serious illnesses and injuries.
Departments include family practice, internal medicine and
pediatrics.
According to Forrest Pierce, the hospital’s
plant manager, Hurricane Charley caused the worst damage – the
hospital sustained substantial roof, window and warehouse roof
damage and the maintenance shop was totally destroyed. Hurricane
Frances worsened the damage by dumping excessive rain on an already
damaged hospital roof.
After Charley swept through, all of the
hospital’s pagers were down. Within 24 hours, David Bobo, a Regional
Engineering Manager from Network Services, was at the hospital.
“Starting at 2 a.m. on a Sunday morning, Dave
was on the hospital roof setting up a temporary transmitter so
paging service could be restored as quickly as possible,” Pierce
said. “It’s absolutely vital that our paging system is functional as
it’s an important communications tool for the hospital staff,
especially for doctors and nurses. Dave worked all morning until
service was restored.”
Florida Department of Corrections
The Florida Department of Corrections (DOC)
is a state agency divided into four regional areas. Total staff is
25,169. DOC has an annual operating budget of $2 billion. General
Services Specialist Gary A. Knott said DOC security is dependent on
effective communications.
When Hurricanes Charley and Frances roared
through the area, DOC’s Region 3 was hit especially hard. The region
encompasses 13 major correctional institutions and six judicial
circuits of probation and parole in central and southwestern
Florida. There are approximately 1,200 individual DOC individual
paging service users within the area.
Knott said the Avon Park Correctional
Institution, about 85 miles southeast of Tampa, was hard struck –
all voice and data services were down. Most cellular and paging
services in the area were also inactive due to the area’s towers
being damaged.
“Right after Hurricane Charley hit us Network
Services contacted us. The team met with Warden Don Davis to discuss
what would be needed and an shortly thereafter an antenna was
installed on the radio tower and a transmitter was installed atop
our administration building which provided much needed staff
communications,” Knott said.
Knott added that Network Services really
stepped up to the plate during preparations for Hurricane Frances.
“When I attempted to contact another network
provider in the Ft. Lauderdale area I was told that they had already
evacuated,” Knott said. “The Network Services staff, however,
remained behind and made sure that we were sent emergency spare
units to various correctional facilities that we anticipated would
be effected by the hurricane. They also let us know of any area
outages that could impact our activities.”
Paging services are not
available everywhere so please call with Service Area Questions
QUESTIONS REQUARDING PAGING CAN BE EMAILD TO ME @ TMPABEEPER@AOL.COM
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