Verizon in Hot Seat as FCC's Sandy Field Hearings Get Under Way

摘要

“There is significant room for improvement” in how wirelessncarriers are able to keep their systems up and running duringnand after disasters like Superstorm Sandy, Jack Schnirman, citynmanager of Long Beach, N.Y., told FCC officials Tuesday duringna full day of FCC hearings on Sandy held in New York and NewnJersey. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, the first and lastnspeaker of the morning, said the kind of communications outagesnseen in the aftermath of Sandy were “simply unacceptable.”