Boston Globe 10/5/17: ‘I’m alive’: Mass. company helping Puerto Ricans contact loved ones. The phones started buzzing right after the system started working. After more than a week with only limited connections to the outside world, residents on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques were hearing news of their loved ones for the first time since Hurricane Maria hit. A system donated by the Lexington company Vanu, Inc. (founder: Vanu Bose, WHS ’83) had restored cell service to a hard-hit part of the US territory that continues to endure widespread utility outages more than two weeks after the deadly storm.

WBUR 10/5/17: Lexington Company Helps Restore Cell Service In Puerto Rico. As of Thursday, two weeks after Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico, only about 15 percent of the U.S. territory has cell service. That’s kept people all over the island isolated and unable to even tell family elsewhere that they’re OK. But thousands of Puerto Ricans are able to contact people by cellphone, thanks to the work of a Lexington company.