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Wireless backhaul provider FiberTower told the FCC its “post-Sandy assessment”...

Wireless backhaul provider FiberTower told the FCC its “post-Sandy assessment” indicates that systems making use of hardened fixed wireless backhaul infrastructure “proved more resilient and reliable during Superstorm Sandy than those that had not.” The company offered written testimony as…

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part of the agency’s Sandy investigation. “Lives and the viability of businesses and institutions are on the line,” the company said (http://xrl.us/boff9s): “Before it can devise remedial policies or practices, the FCC must isolate vulnerabilities. ... Telecommunications systems that depend on reinforced backhaul that met certain specific standards, not only stayed up and running during Sandy but could be repaired and restored far quicker than those without such technology."