Public Knowledge and 18 other organizations asked the...
Public Knowledge and 18 other organizations asked the FCC Thursday to “provide both certainty to industry and reassurance to the public” by “clearly delineating what responsibilities telecommunications providers have to rebuild in the aftermath of disasters.” The “improvised” government and…
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industry response after Superstorm Sandy “should not be the template for post-disaster recovery in the future, and should not serve as a model for the future of the telecommunications network,” said the letter to acting Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn. It was co-signed by the New America Foundation, Center for Media Justice,Benton Foundation, Common Cause and others (http://bit.ly/1bS5Gnk). The “premature rollout” of Verizon’s Voice Link on Fire Island “threatens to raise a precedent that puts Americans at risk after natural disaster situations,” said a PK spokesman. “Unless the FCC establishes appropriate responses for situations in which infrastructure is damaged and carriers do not wish to rebuild, policy makers will continue to improvise, carriers will continue to evade their regulatory obligations, and consumers will continue to be harmed,” PK wrote in a blog post (http://bit.ly/1bS6dW5).