Trying to enactment from location without net is astir impossible.

That’s the world for radical who are going connected a period without a mode to get connected the web.

Yadi Mendez was fired due to the fact that she couldn’t her occupation without net access.

“It’s the benignant of occupation you can’t bash connected a laptop,” Mendez said. “It’s impossible. Yeah, you tin cheque your email, but it requires aggregate screens, aggregate websites and you’re connected the telephone a lot. It required a dedicated abstraction and each my equipment.”

She was moving from location for a Chicago-based company.

It was expected to beryllium a caller commencement aft she mislaid her occupation a twelvemonth agone owed to the pandemic.

She started this caller relation a week earlier Ian struck and was without powerfulness for 9 days.

When the lights came backmost on, the net didn’t.

So she spoke to CenturyLink to spot erstwhile that mightiness change.

First, it was 30 to 40 hours and past determination was nary clip framework astatine all.

“They could astatine slightest springiness a timeframe, like, hey we’re moving successful this zip codification oregon this quadrant successful Cape Coral that feeds this area, you cognize with this anticipated date,” Mendez said. “They’re conscionable level retired saying it could instrumentality weeks, months oregon into the archetypal quarter.”

Because it could beryllium until 2023, Mendez was fto spell by her employer.

Xfinity van. (CREDIT: WINK News)

“I was already suffering from depression, anxiety, insomnia and each that truly escalated,” Mendez said. “At this point, I’m similar what americium I going to do?”

Xfinity workcrews are nearing afloat restoration of services. Excluding the obstruction islands, Lee County has 98% of customers restored. Charlotte County is simply a 96% portion Collier is astatine 99%.

Both Xfinity and CenturLlink person acceptable up hotspot locations astir Southwest Florida.

But Xfinity lawsuit Bill Stanton is skeptical.

“Am I going to beryllium determination each time agelong with the car moving and the aerial on? You cognize I tin spell successful with a afloat vessel of state and travel retired with nothing,” Stanton said. “I cognize I’m not the lone 1 successful this situation. That mislaid perchance oregon not getting paid due to the fact that they don’t person net astatine home.”

The latest numbers from Centurylink shows that determination are 2,620 outages successful Lee County northbound of the Caloosahatchee River, with estimated afloat restoration by the extremity of February.

South of the Caloosahatchee, determination are 1,180 outages, with afloat restoration expected by mid-December.

Xfinity said it inactive has 4 WiFi plans deployed crossed Charlotte and Lee counties.

Those are located at:

  • Cape Coral: Walmart Supercenter astatine 1619 Del Prado Blvd S.
  • Fort Myers: Walmart Supercenter astatine 17105 San Carlos Blvd.
  • Port Charlotte: Walmart Neighborhood Market (Charlotte Square) astatine 2150 Tamiami Trail.
  • Punta Gorda: Punta Gorda Isles Civic Association astatine 2001 Shreve Street. The van is located successful the parking lot.

CenturyLink said it has WIFI astatine the pursuing locations:

  • 3445 Sanibel Captiva Rd., Sanibel
  • 906 Country Club Blvd., Cape Coral
  • 4001 Palm Tree Blvd, Cape Coral
  • 4195 Kings Hwy, Port Charlotte
  • 10546 Tipton Dr., Bokeelia (Pine Island)

The web is “CTL-QF Free WiFI”, nary password required.