Hurricane Katrina. Telecom Damage Tops $400 Million

According to The Washington Post, telephone company BellSouth estimated that it would cost $400 million to $600 million to repair the damage from Hurricane Katrina and said it could take four to six months to restore service in the hardest-hit areas of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast of Mississippi.

"The Atlanta-based company, the dominant phone service provider in much of the South, stressed that those were preliminary estimates. It has not yet been able to survey all of its sites given the breadth of the area struck by the hurricane a week ago".

emily | 9:06 AM | Random Stats / Infographics |
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