After hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf coast, the cell phone service went out almost immediately. The FCC now wants require that all cell phone towers have at least 8 hours of battery power, in case of an emergency. A number of cell phone providers including Sprint has said that they don’t want to do it. They claim that it is to expensive, they claim it could cost 15,000 per tower in modifications and their are over 200,000 towers that would need to be modified. That would total $3 billion dollars. All the cell phones providers have agreed that they need to make their network more reliable, but they don’t seem to want to put any money into it.
Source: ABC
