Verizon agrees to pay a stiff fine after causing a 911 outage in six states

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Verizon agrees to pay a stiff fine after causing a 911 outage in six states
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is a little poorer today after the nation's largest wireless provider agreed to pay a fine of $1,050,000 for an outage back in December 2022. With its network down, hundreds of 911 calls made by the wireless firm's customers in six states failed to connect. The U.S. Treasury is the beneficiary ofwas charged with failing to deliver 911 calls in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee for one hour and 44 minutes.

The FCC said in its press release,"As Congress and the Commission have found, robust and reliable 911 service is a critical national priority. Those calling first responders must be able to rely on their calls being completed." Current FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel weighed in with a statement of her own. . The agency's chairwoman said,"When you call 911 in an emergency, it’s critical that your call goes through.

FCC rules require that all calls made to 911 be sent to a 911 call center. What might have made the FCC a little upset was that the same thing had happened withsaid that it took action to prevent the same problems from repeating only to have it reoccur not too long afterwards., Loyaan A. Egal, Chief of the Enforcement Bureau, stated,"The Enforcement Bureau takes any potential violations of the Commission’s 911 rules extremely seriously.

Considering that the December outage was the second time that the same issue, which was said to be caused by a mistake made by the carrier, knocked out Beyond smartphones, Alan has covered the emergence of tablets, smartwatches, and smart speakers.A discussion is a place, where people can voice their opinion, no matter if it is positive, neutral or negative.

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