The commitment of Tim for the population ofEmilia Romagna affected byflood. The company participates in the Operational Committee of the Civil Protection Department, activated on a permanent basis, and has operated from the outset in close contact with national and local institutions. Since last week, a task force has been operating in the field with over 900 company technicians and support personnel from external companies committed to restoring full functionality of the telephone network and internet connections in the area.
Network reset
Thanks to an intense activity, to date the mobile network it has been reactivated in almost all flooded locations. As for the fixed networkinterventions were carried out on around 300 transmission devices, which made it possible to restore connections for over 30 thousand customers in the provinces of Bologna, Forlì-Cesena, Ravenna and Rimini. "In the next few days, the interventions will start in the localities where the plants are still inaccessible", explains a note from the Group.
The numbers are noteworthy emergency equipment made available: over 500 vehicles, 70 equipped vans and 20 vehicles equipped with radio stations and mobile exchanges that use emergency electric generators. “Where landslides have damaged i fiber cables optics, preventing access to emergency vehicles, it was necessary to reach the intervention areas by helicopter", continues the note, adding that the company has also "activated radio links to overcome situations of complete isolation, for example in the valleys of the Romagna hinterland, where landslides have completely destroyed the fiber optic cables making it impossible to reconstruct the damaged sections”.
Free gigs
The Group has also already made Tim and Kena available to customers Free gigs of data traffic. The company is preparing further actions to protect the customers involved, as has already happened in the past for other exceptional events on the national territory. THE services 187, 191, 119 and 181 remain available for further information.
