Verizon continues to have teams working around the clock to restore service to the counties affected by Hurricane Milton.
Now that Hurricane Milton has left Florida after spreading death and destruction throughout its path, over one million people are still left without power in the area. Verizon has started repairing its network with crews working overnight. 70% of cell sites that went down due to Milton are now back up and running. That figure is 80% in Polk County after third-party fiber providers had serious damage done to the fiber backhaul cutting off the transfer of signals carrying voice and data from cell towers to the core network.
Just because a cell site gets restored, that doesn’t mean that Verizon’s crew is done with it. Right now, System Performance engineers are going through the restored cell sites optimizing these sites to return them to performance levels seen before the storm hit.
