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Phone Companies Report on Katrina Response

Caron Carlson writes in eWeek:

As the country braces for Hurricane Rita, which is expected to hit land Friday or Saturday, lawmakers in Washington continue their struggle to understand what went wrong in the response to Hurricane Katrina earlier this month.

Senators this morning questioned executives from several telephone companies to find out why the phone networks fared so poorly in the storm's wake.

Approximately 3 million phone lines were knocked down by the storm, more than 300,000 customers remain without phone service today, and more than 1,000 cell phone sites had to be restored, according to Kevin Martin, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, who testified before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.

posted by Fergie @ 9/22/2005 05:07:00 PM