Free Press Urges FCC to Investigate Communications Failures After Recent Storms
Free Press said the FCC should “investigate all of the factors that contributed to communication outages in Puerto Rico and Florida” after Hurricane Fiona and Hurricane Ian, that made landfall in September. Free Press urged the commission “to investigate whether…
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the lack of communications contributed to the death toll.” It also asked the FCC "to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the current state of telecommunications infrastructure in Puerto Rico to better understand the failures that occurred during this latest storm and other prior storms and emergencies.” Though an FCC report about outages after Hurricane Michael in 2018 “was far from comprehensive, it did fault the carriers and these other parties for their failures to coordinate,” said the Free Press filing, posted Thursday in docket 21-346: “The Commission failed to conduct a similar examination after Hurricane Maria, which devastated Puerto Rico in 2017 and became one of the deadliest disasters in our nation’s history.”