I heard that exact same thing face-to-face from folks this year and I've read it also - though it escapes me where I ran across those reports. That's the sort of thing I was alluding to in my first post, and that sort of performance is what matters, not who's hot day-to-day with the consumers.

Matt - are you sure they only lost an antenna? I thought their corporate HQ (including lots of the network stuff) was massively damaged by the collapses as well - seems to me I read about that, and the repairs, in ENR several times. And I thought I also read that after the last blackout, Verizon started beefing up the back-up power endurance at the cells.

I'm not 100% certain I remember this all accurately and hope that someone who has certain info can chime in. But AFAIK, Verizon is currently the best in terms of robustness in emergency situations by a considerable margin. They are not the cheapest or most chic, of course...

But if some other service provider gets the day-to-day job done for folks, that's important, too.

Tom