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Instant Wireless Speeds Katrina Recovery
Design News - Newton, MA, USA
“Suddenly, you had this bubble of wireless activity surrounding an intersection in Gulfport,” Kimball says. “And we were able to keep that 'bubble' up and running for weeks until other sites could come back and support the wireless traffic.”

As critical as that bubble was, however, it was just a small example of the role played by cellular phones and networking technology in the recovery of the Gulf region. Indeed, cell usage grew so dramatically in the months following Katrina that the cities of Houston and New Orleans emerged in mid-2006 as the biggest cellular markets in the U.S., …

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