Verizon, AT & T Providing Unlimited Conversations, Text and Data During Tropical Storm Barry

Verizon and AT & T provide customers with unlimited calls, SMS and data via Tropical Storm Barry.

From Friday through Tuesday, Verizon provides unlimited calling, SMS and data to its postpaid, prepaid and small business customers residing in coastal Louisiana, on the way to Tropical Storm Barry.

The 12 parishes involved are Assumption, Jefferson, Lafourche, Orleans, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard, Saint Charles, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist, Saint Martin, Saint Mary and Terrebonne.

Verizon also stated that it removed the restrictions on the speed of transmission of first responder data on the passage of the storm prior to its arrival in the Gulf Coast region.

AT & T Wireless customers and AT & T PREPAID in areas affected by tropical storm Barry will benefit from unlimited access to conversations, SMS and data, the company said.

AT & T announced that it would automatically issue credits and waive additional service charges for AT & T wireless customers with billing addresses and AT & T PREPAID customers with postcode telephone numbers in 22 parishes. These parishes include: Assumption, Jefferson, Lafourche, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. John the Baptist, St. Martin, St. Mary, Terrebonne, Lafayette, Acadiana, Iberia, Tangipoha, East. Baton Rouge, Livingston, Saint-Tammamy, Baton Rouge West, Saint-Landry and Ascension.

Customers in affected areas can still receive alerts on these dates, but billing will reflect credits and / or data, voice and text charges removed, said AT & T.

AT & T said the offer ran from July 12 to 18.