FCC Addressing Puerto Rico's Concerns, Pai Tells Lawmakers
The FCC is focused on Puerto Rico's specific issues, Chairman Ajit Pai assured House Commerce Vice Chair Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., and other lawmakers in a letter posted Thursday. The agency drew “lessons from the 2017 Hurricane Season to help inform…
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our preparedness efforts and future incident response,” he said. “The unique aspects of responding to disasters in remote areas, such as hilly, rural parts of Puerto Rico, highlighted several key areas of preparedness. Here, satellite communications and high frequency (HF) radio, such as amateur radio, take on greater significance for more isolated areas.” The FCC found it must “engage actively year-round with critical infrastructure sectors and state, local, Tribal, and territorial governments to better address and position communications needs in times of disaster” and created the Hurricane Recovery Task Force, he said.