ERF Wireless inks deal to plug wireless holes in oil spill area

ERF Wireless Inc. (ERFW) has struck a deal with BP P.L.C. (BP) to provide wireless services on Galveston Island, Texas.
The installation will provide mobile bandwidth to the U.S. Coast Guard’s Incident Command Center, which was recently set up on the island, and aid crews as they search for and respond to reports of oil affecting the Texas Gulf Coast. Calls to ERF Wireless for more information were not returned.
Clean-up crews and emergency personnel have descended on the gulf following BP’s Deepwater Horizon spill off the coast of Louisiana and with that’s comes a growing demand for wireless connectivity.
“As a Texas-based company with a high-capacity communications network already serving Galveston Island and the upper Texas coast, it was possible for ERF Wireless to quickly respond to the communication needs of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Incident Command Center,” H. Dean Cubley, CEO of ERF Wireless, said in a prepared statement. “In addition, with so many of our customers and company personnel located along the Texas Gulf Coast, we have a special interest in supporting the clean-up efforts and research that the Coast Guard is coordinating. The high-speed connectivity we’re providing the command center should help in the transmission of the data being collected and we sincerely believe our technology will contribute to speeding up the process of the Gulf Coast’s protection and restoration from the BP Deepwater Horizon spill.”