Wireless networks, Internet keep working during major blackout
Friday, August 15, 2003
SAN FRANCISCO -- Even though lights went out Thursday throughout much of the Northeast, wireless networks and Internet connections allowed companies with backup strategies and people with battery-charged cell phones and laptops to keep communicating.
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