MINYANVILLE ORIGINAL Hurricane Sandy knocked out cable and phone connections to more than 1 million customers in the New York area. [Editor's note: Given that approximately 8.5 million households were without electricity the actual number of customers who couldn't use their cable even if it was technically available was much larger.] According to the Federal Communications Commission or the FCC 25% of cell sites in 10 states and the District of Columbia were not working as of Tuesday. According to Reuters FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said yesterday that conditions were improving but “serious outages remain particularly in New York New ...