Trying to reconnect Haiti to itself and the world

Full Story at msnbc.com

When disaster strikes, many people’s first instinct is to reach for the phone.

When the earthquake struck Haiti on Tuesday, Trilogy International Partners’ first instinct was to make sure the phones would start working again.

The Bellevue, Wash., company owns Voila, the second-largest cell phone operator in Haiti. The company, which has about 1 million subscribers in Haiti, dispatched planes as soon as possible to the island nation and was one of the first to land at the airport.

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