Firms working for disaster communications

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Several U.S. firms including Verizon Communications, Intel and Cisco Systems Inc., are developing a communications plan in case of a disaster.

The American Red Cross had tried to marshal its resources to build a communications capability after Hurricane Katrina, but the size and scale were so different than what the organization had encountered in previous disasters, the system had to be built from scratch, the New York Times reported Sunday.

Donald K. Peterson, chief executive of Avaya, the telecommunications equipment company in Basking Ridge, N.J., said that before Katrina, private companies had never been asked to come up with ways to re-establish lost communications.
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Every disaster I have been in the cell phones were useless...