Emergency service systems tied to 911 went offline across several states on Wednesday night including parts of Nevada, Nebraska, Texas, and the entire state of South Dakota. And the cause has finally been revealed—at least partially. Apparently, the outage had something to do with the installation of a light pole, which severed a fiber line.
When Gizmodo asked for more technical details on how the incident disrupted its services, Lumen was not forthcoming. The Federal Communications Commission is investigating the outages, according to NBC News. The outage in Las Vegas still allowed anyone who needed to contact emergency services to text 911 and anyone who called could still be identified by dispatchers through caller ID, even if the call couldn’t be completed.
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