Access to Generators Hinders Storm Recovery

 With about 490,000 Texas homes and businesses without electricity Thursday morning and power plants gradually coming back online, the telecom sector shouldered its share of outages. Poweroutage.us, which aggregates data from utility websites, said the number of homes in the dark is trending down from more than three million on Wednesday. 

On Thursday, telecom providers reported 208 site outages in Texas affecting 369,918 wireless and 34,868 wireline users, according to the FCC. That compares to 140 reported outages in Texas affecting 279,585 wireless and 9,354 wireline users Wednesday.  Continue Reading