Sandy wreaked havoc with the nation's communications from Virginia to Massachusetts and as far west as Michigan. The slow-moving monster took out about 25 percent of wireless, broadband, cable and telephone services throughout 158 counties resulting in dead air for 7 to 8 million people, the Federal Communications Commission reported Tuesday afternoon during a press briefing.
The counties included in the report are part of the agency's Disaster Information Reporting System (DIRS), a voluntary web-based system that communications providers, including wireless, wireline, broadcast, cable and voice over Internet protocol providers use to report communications infrastructure status and problems during a crisis.
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