By MATT SLAGLE AP Technology Writer
Thousands of Hurricane Katrina refugees packing into Houston's Astrodome are getting electronic access to the outside world.
Corporations, volunteers and nonprofit agencies continued working Friday to install telephones and Internet-enabled computers inside the sprawling former sports stadium in one of many efforts aimed at bringing communications technologies to hurricane victims.
Astrodome refugees, displaced from the Superdome in New Orleans, were getting 10 minute blocks of time to make free local and long distance calls.
-
formatting link
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: See Mr. Slagle's entire report in the TELECOM Digest V24_#400 from Friday, September 2. PAT]