What happened? Hurricane Maria, the most powerful storm to hit Puerto Rico in almost a century, has devastated the U.S. territory—crippling its telecommunications system, destroying its power grid and making an already difficult economic situation worse for the island’s 3.4 million citizens. As of Wednesday, more than 90% of Puerto Rico’s wireless cell sites were out of service, according to the Federal Communications Commission. Authorities have reopened the territory’s largest port but say relief efforts are being...

Source: Wall Street Journal September 27, 2017 16:18 UTC