Monday, September 8, 2003

AT&T to Support Telecoms Sans Frontieres

AT&T announced a global agreement to support Telecoms Sans Frontieres (TSF), a non-governmental organization (NGO) dedicated to providing emergency telecommunication services. TSF's mission is to supply telecommunications capabilities for humanitarian aid teams on the ground, while enabling victims to restore contact with the outside world by for example, calling their families and friends from whom they have lost contact. Less than 48 hours after learning of an emergency, TSF can arrive on the scene anywhere in the world and set up an operations center within a matter of minutes.


In addition to financial assistance from the AT&T Foundation, AT&T Business is contributing technical support for the development of TSF initiatives by providing TSF teams with free remote access to the Internet and a supply of AT&T PrePaid Phone Cards.
http://www.att.comhttp://perso.wanadoo.fr/tsfi/html_e/e_index1.htm