FCC Chairman Ajit Pai praised the efforts of the wireless
communications industry in the wake of back-to-back hurricanes Harvey
and Irma. Speaking to attendees of the Mobile World Congress Americas 2017
on Tuesday, Pai said the FCC, along with other federal agencies like
the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Emergency Management
Agency, as well as state and local agencies, monitor communications. He
thanked all the agencies’ “incredible staffers on the ground.”
“It will be a long time before we’ll be able to calculate the total
amount of damage inflicted by Harvey and Irma. But we already know one
thing: it would have been a lot worse if it weren’t for wireless
communications,” said Pai. Continue Reading
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