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T-Mobile Offers Relief for Hurricane Victims

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the good-samaritan-or-just-good-publicity dept.

lilrowdy18 writes "Eweek reports that T-Mobile is offering free Wi-Fi to areas affected by Hurricane Katrina. This relief will be free until Sept 2 and an evaluation will be done to see if it will continue after that. The hot spots are only available to residents of Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi and does not include phone service. The article also includes a link to a map of T-Mobile hotspots. At least we can use some form of communication to get in touch with loved ones."

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  1. Sounds like it might be a problem by Gary+Destruction · · Score: 0, Redundant

    New Orleans is only 80% under water. The people might be able to use it if they can get their laptops and cell phones to dry out. That is, assuming that they can find them. Besides that, Louisiana is under marshal law. What gives T-mobile the authority to offer anything?

  2. GREAT! by ericdano · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Great, no fresh water, gas, electricity.......but I have WiFi for free. Woohoo!

    Oh, I forgot, I have to go fill up on $3+ a gallon gas.....cause the oil companies used their record profits to update their infrastructure.....NOT!

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