The storm "Xynthia" private mobile subscribers

France Telecom mobilizes 2 000 technicians to restore as soon as all communications in the wake of the storm "Xynthia. SFR has also involved 600 technicians and engineers.

On Monday 1 March, after the passage of the storm "Xynthia" France Telecom is facing an outage for approximately 170 000 customers in fixed telephony and broadband in the affected areas particularly in regions Center, Poitou-Charentes and Pays de la Loire. Over 2,000 technicians and network specialists are at work yesterday to restore communications.Furthermore, the mobile phone network Orange is impacted due to the cutoff of the power of over 1 000 relay antennas. The mobile phone coverage is degraded in the same regions but also in some departments regions Burgundy, Champagne-Ardenne and Lorraine.For its part, SFR said that maintenance operations this weekend have already helped restore nearly 2 / 3 of the mobile relay antennas impacted, 250 remain inactive. SFR estimates that about 125 000 the number of mobile subscribers and 13 000 the number of subscribers and fixed broadband SFR remaining still impacted by the storm.