Ajit Pai killed rules that could have helped Florida recover from hurricane

[ECSNorway]

The radical deregulation of the telephone industry, despite the lessons of previous natural disasters such as Hurricane Sandy, guaranteed that providers would chose to cut costs and increase profits rather than invest in hardening networks or emergency preparedness.

Deregulation is not the sole cause of this, of course. The guarantee of a federal disaster bailout makes it easier and cheaper for them to simply take the loss and rebuild than it is to build a network that can resist this kind of damage.

We need to be cutting corporate welfare, not personal welfare.