AT&T and T-Mobile agreed to enable roaming on their networks in areas impacted by Hurricane Sanday and where capacity is available and subscribers have a compatible device. Both networks use GSM and UMTS.
Customers will be able to place calls in a normal fashion and the traffic will be carried by the most available network. There will no change necessary for rate plans.
AT&T also noted that it has many disaster response teams engaged and making progress in restoring wireless and wireline services in areas affected by Hurricane Sandy. The vast majority of the company's cell sites in the Northeast are online and working.
T-Mobile USA said its network in New York City is more than 80% operational and that restoration work continues in the harder hit areas of lower Manhattan, Staten Island, Long Island, coastal and Northern New Jersey, Connecticut and portions of Pennsylvania, including Philadelphia.
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