[EAS] Lacking Common Sense...

[Bill Ruck]

[The list fascist previously blocked this posting]

The FCC has authority over telephone companies and cell companies.

At least for land lines those operating companies are required to 
submit reports of outages.

Keep in mind when the FCC required 8 hours of battery for cell sites 
the cell companies sued and won.  That allows them to have little 
battery backup.

Congress, as always, is looking for something to grab public notice.

Bill Ruck
Curmudgeon
San Francisco

At 04:20 PM 7/5/2012, you wrote:

>
>Did anyone else see this? Why does the FCC need to have a Congressional
>hearing to figure out that cells phone and the Internet don't work when
>there's no power?
>
>FCC examining storm damage to area phone networks after 911 calls failed
>
>By Brendan Sasso - 07/03/12 01:29 PM ET
>
>The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is looking into the damage that
>the massive storm that swept from the Midwest into the Northeast on Friday
>caused to wireless and landline phone networks in the mid-Atlantic.