Phones, Computers Coming to Astrodome
      - Sep 2, 2005 09:25 PM (AP Online)

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 minutes blocks of time to make free local and long 
distance calls.

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      - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=51563478


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