Sept 21, 2005
Immediately after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, Lemko was asked by the U.S. Army to support their relief efforts. Lemko deployed four sites and supported over 500 users over a 3 week period. A critical component was Lemko’s ability to use satellite to connect the sites to cover the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport and the Naval Air Station – New Orleans. The ability to have this communications capability was valuable to the relief effort. Everyone appreciated the mobile phones donated by Motorola and Kyocera.
Watch the segment that was broadcast on ABC News:
