FCC takes post-Katrina stock: scope of recovery business clearer at FCC.(AFTER THE STORM: REGULATORY)

Wireless Week, October, 2005 by Rockwell, Mark

WASHINGTON -- The recovery of the communications networks in the Gulf Coast states stricken by Hurricane Katrina depends on a number of business concessions and details that allow more latitude for carriers in their efforts, say executives and regulators involved in the task. Some of the stark details of what faces telecom carriers came to light at the FCC's September meeting, which convened at BellSouth's emergency control center in Atlanta.

At the meeting, executives from wireless, wireline, broadcasting companies and regulatory agencies revealed some of the details in their joint recovery efforts in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi. Carrier officials, like Rod Odom, president, Network Services, BellSouth Corporation, told FCC commissioners that...

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