Phone Companies Speed Haiti Text Donations
The carriers, including Verizon, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile and AT&T, said they will get the donations to the Red Cross within a week, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday ($).
In Tuesday's edition of the Miami Herald, Verizon spokesman Chuck Hamby said donations to Haiti have surpassed all previous records.
As the Herald reports: "The $27 million given through texts eclipses the amount of donations via text raised for Hurricane Katrina victims: less than $500,000."
