Here is some information I received from Cingular Wireless concerning the damage to their infrastructure in the LA/MS/AL Area:

Subject: SIR level 1E Initial Hurricane Katrina Cell Site V11539

Location: SouthEast - Eng ;Ala /MS / LA
Elements: Cell Sites
Start Time: 08-29-2005 12:45 Eastern
GSM And TDMA Voice And Data Customers Cannot Make or Receive Call From Mobile
ETTR: unknown

Location: SouthEast - Eng ;Ala /MS / LA
Elements: South Region Cell Sites Start Time: 08-29-2005 12:45 Eastern GSM And TDMA Voice And Data Customers Cannot Make or Receive Call From Mobile
ETTR: unknown

Currently there are a 834 GSM and 607 TDMA sites down in Alabama,Mississippi, Louisiana for a total of 1450 sites down as a result of Hurricane Katrina.

The Breakdown for Orange and Blue locations are as follows.

Louisiana
Currently there are 458 out of 1159 locations affected in New Orleans

The breakdown for New Orleans is as follows
199 Orange Locations 214 GSM and 199 TDMA
259 Blue Locations 259 GSM and 139 TDMA

Mississippi
Currently there are 287 out of 760 locations affected in Mississippi

The breakdown for Jackson is as follows
152 Orange Locations 152 GSM and 67 TDMA
135 Blue Locations 52 GSM and 135 TDMA

Alabama
Currently there are 157 out of 1165 locations affected in Alabama

The breakdown for Mobile is as follows
113 Orange Locations 113 GSM and 23 TDMA
44 Blue Locations 44 GSM and 42 TDMA

All visibility to the New Orleans Blue TDMA and GSM MSCs has been lost.
All visibility to the New Orleans Orange TDMA MSC has been lost. All
visibility to the Lafayette Orange TDMA MSC has been lost. All
visibility to the Jackson Orange TDMA and GSM MSC has been lost.

The Mobile Orange MSC is Currently running on generator.

All Intrado links to Blue MSCs in Louisiana are down, Phase II calls are
defaulting to Phase I.

Alabama, Mississippi, New Orleans Hurricane Katrina Plan

GENERATORS
Mobile 64 onhand
Mobile 75 in route from FLA
Lafayette 15 onhand
Lafayette 40 in route from GA
Jackson 25 in route from GA
Birmingham 12 on hand
NW Floridia 16 on hand

An additional 150 Generators in Route

Total on hand or in route 397

FUEL
Diesel
Mobile 11,500 G diesel on hand
Lafayette 4,000 G diesel on hand
Total onhand 5,500 G
Additional diesel 126,000 G available
12,000 G inbound
Total 153,000 G available

Unleaded
Mobile 10,300 G unleaded on hand
4,000 G inbound
Total 10,800 G Available

We have deployment and fuel crews staged in both Mobile and Lafayette.
We also have tower crews on standby, as well as line and antenna
material.

OPERATIONS

Operations will run initial dispatch of resources out of Mobile. After
the storm, they will assess damages and determine the best place from
which to stage recovery efforts. If Baton Rouge is unaffected, the Ops
Manager there (Dell Oliver) will go to New Orleans to assist. After
setting up the initial dispatch in Mobile, Kenny Browning will also go
to New Orleans. Charlie Young will be in Mobile.

Gulf coast site recovery will be supported out of Mobile. Central MS
site recovery will be supported out of Central and North Alabama.

Customers affected: unknown
Start time: 08-29-2005 05:00 Eastern
Teams engaged: SRNOC, Local Ops, Power and Telco companies
Estimated time to repair: unknown
Next update: 10:00 am EST

BTW Orange and Blue refer to Cingular and AT&T.