Cellular South averaging more than 5 million minutes used per day in South Mississippi
JACKSON, Miss. - (September 4, 2005) – Cellular South’s Emergency Task Force continues to make significant progress in restoration of service throughout South Mississippi and the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The company is also providing free local and long distance calls at evacuation shelters, disaster relief centers and Cellular South’s own retail locations and tents across the affected areas.
Latest Cellular South developments:
- Cellular South is averaging more than 5 million minutes used per day in South Mississippi, with more than 1 million on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
- Cellular South has activated more than 500 complimentary wireless phones for first responders and government officials.
- Due to the impact of the hurricane on many Cellular South retail employees, the company has deployed relief teams to assist in opening stores and manning tents in the effected area. Free calls and cell phone charging facilities are being offered at the following locations on Monday.
Free Call and Cell Phone Charger Centers
Stores
- D’Iberville, 3586 Sangani Boulevard, Suite A
- Ocean Springs, 2424 Bienville Boulevard
- Wiggins, 1111 East Frontage Road - Store
- Hattiesburg, 4930 Hardy Street/Highway 98 W
- Hattiesburg, Highway 49
- Columbia, inside Walmart
- Lucedale, 223 Winter Street, Suite B
- Laurel, 330 North 16 th Ave.
- Magee, 503 Pinola Drive SW/Highway 49
Tents (generators provided for charging cell phones)
- Bay St. Louis, Highway 90
- Gulfport, Three Rivers Road/Highway 49
- Pass Christian , Pineville Elementary, Menge Avenue
- Hurricane victims trying to reach family and friends can also make free calls from Cellular South phones at many Red Cross Shelters throughout Mississippi including:
- Gulfport: Bel Aire Elementary, Harrison Central High School, Gulfport Central Elementary, Gulfport Central Middle School, Harrison Central High School
- Saucier: Saucier Elementary School
- Jackson: Mississippi Coliseum (hours 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.), Broadmoor Baptist Church, First Baptist Church/Madison, Madison United Methodist Church, Richland High School, First Baptist Church/Jackson
- Hattiesburg: Forrest County Multipurpose Center, Oak Grove High School
- Since the Hurricane hit, Cellular South has filled and transported truckloads of food, ice, bedding and personal essentials for Cellular South employees affected by the hurricane and Cellular South Emergency Task Force crews who are working around the clock to continue restoration of network capacity.
- Many Cellular South employees, both technical and retail, have been working around the clock before, during and since the storm, so that we can service our customers and the community.
- Customers can call #STORM from their Cellular South phones or 1.888.790.7211 to receive updated information on post-hurricane wireless service and network capabilities, store hours and openings for retail locations in affected areas, and other disaster relief information as available.
- Cellular South’s web site, www.cellularsouth.com, contains hurricane information and helpful links, as well as a map depicting current coverage in South Mississippi.
- Cellular South is dedicated to its customers and is proud to be implementing one of the largest reconstruction efforts in our country’s history.
About Cellular South
The company is the largest privately held wireless provider in the U.S. and is licensed to provide wireless service – to a total population of more than five million people – on its network stretching from the Memphis Metropolitan Area, throughout all of Mississippi, along Coastal Alabama and the Florida Panhandle through Walton County. The company has been named Mississippi Business Journal’s Salute to Business and Industry 2005 Large Retailer. For more information, contact Cellular South at 1-877-CSOUTH1 or visit cellularsouth.com.
Contact:
Tanya Rankin, Cellular South (601) 974-7134 trankin@cellularsouth.com
