Federal, state and local money should be appropriated specificall...
Federal, state and local money should be appropriated specifically for satellite communications equipment to be used during national disasters, said Satellite Industry Assn. Exec. Dir. David Cavossa in a letter Fri. to the FCC’s Katrina panel. The group meets…
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today (Mon.) in Jackson, Miss. to study lessons from the disaster. One lesson, Cavossa said, is that “in many of the affected areas, satellites provided the only source of communications” during and after the hurricanes, and “the fundamental crisis in the lack of communications command and control… could have been avoided or significantly mitigated” if satellite networks were used more. The main problem, he said, was lack of satellite equipment in the affected area, and such equipment should be placed in areas likely to be affected by disasters. Even where equipment was available, users often had difficulty completing satellite calls because equipment hadn’t been properly maintained or staff hadn’t been properly trained in its use, Cavossa said. He also said provision should be made for easy credentialing of satellite engineers and technicians in an emergency.