They mobilize their networks of contacts road construction teams, guys who sell diesel generators, or better yet the people they know who are building the new powerplant, their friends at Huawei or ZTE to get the telecoms situation in shape.
When I toured the island with National Park Service (NPS) staff in August 2010, Jim Calvinperez, the facilities manager and chief engineer, told me that 2, 000 gallons of diesel fuel had to be shipped to the island weekly in order to keep the generators in the powerplant humming.