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Wireless ISPs during disasters (hurricane harvey, irma and maria)


From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 15:28:31 -0500 (EST)


While some of the big companies like Facebook, Google and Microsoft got some press about their wireless experiments during the post-hurricane recovery, the FCC hasn't heard about the experience of wireless ISPs during the recovery.

Were there any wireless ISPs in south-Texas, south-Florida, Puerto Rico or U.S. Virigin Islands? How did they survive, or able to speed recovery efforts? Were there resources they needed?

WISPs don't normally report in the FCC DIRS or NORS disaster reporting systems, so WISPs are a blank spot.


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