FCC - "FCC APPROVES $950 MILLION TO HARDEN, IMPROVE, AND EXPAND BROADBAND NETWORKS IN PUERTO RICO AND U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS - DOC-359891A5"

Title: FCC APPROVES $950 MILLION TO HARDEN, IMPROVE, AND EXPAND BROADBAND NETWORKS IN PUERTO RICO AND U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS - DOC-359891A5 Source: FCC Data/Action: News Releases Date: 9/26/2019 Text Preview: ...Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. We all remember it because the images are impossible to forget. They were searing. We saw whole communities underwater, flooded with more than 30 inches of rain. We saw the destructive aftermath of winds that reached an astonishing 155 miles an hour. The damage and dislocation was so severe that the toll the storm took may never be fully understood. But experts say we lost more than 4,600 lives in the storm. And on top of the horrific loss of life, Hurricane... ...storm I went to learn about its recovery. I was disappointed then-and I remain disappointed now-that the Federal Communications Commission refused to hold a hearing in Puerto Rico in the aftermath of the disaster-because what I saw was powerful. The damage from Hurricane... ...marks of a storm that just doesn't go away, that reminds its residents of the awful harm that wind and rain can do to a community, its economy, and its way of...