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Post-Katrina landscape turned into wirele
How cavalries of geeks connected storm-ravaged areas to the out
Ap Associated Press Updated: 5:44 p.m. CT Oct 4, 2005
Hours after Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast and knocked out telecommunications across much of the region, Mac Dearman visited shelters in northern Louisiana to connect telephones.
Dearman doesn't work for a phone company.
He owns a local wireless Internet service provider, and the gear he set up doesn't need a traditional phone network. It carries calls — as well e-mail and other data — over the Internet.
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