In Puerto Rico, No Power Means No Telecommunications
In Puerto Rico, No Power Means No Telecommunications
Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer
October 13, 20176m 24s
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Show Notes
Nearly three weeks after Hurricane Maria tore through the Caribbean, Puerto Rico is still mostly an island deleted from the present and pushed back a century or so—with little clean water, little electric power, and almost no telecommunications. For telecom, the biggest problem is the lack of power, because most of the island’s transmission lines were knocked out.
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