How Hurricane Harvey Is Affecting Customers of Comcast, AT&T and Charter

10:15 08/31/2017

How Hurricane Harvey Is Affecting Customers of Comcast, AT&T and Charter

As President Donald Trump surveys damage from Hurricane Harvey, the full impact of the storm to local broadband and wireless networks is not yet known. The storm had knocked out more than 280,000 cable and wireline telecom hookups in Texas and Louisiana by Tuesday afternoon, the Federal Communications Commission reported. The count is up significantly since Monday, when the government reported that nearly 190,000 cable and wireline customers were out of service. Close to 5% of cell sites were out of service throughout the 55 counties in the disaster area. The coastal Texas areas just northeast of Corpus Christi were hit especially hard, however. In Aransas and Refugio counties, the FCC noted
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