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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday December 29 2018, @02:58AM   Printer-friendly
from the call-for-help-go-unconnected dept.

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911 emergency services go down across the US after CenturyLink outage

911 emergency services in several states across the U.S. remain down after a massive outage at a CenturyLink data center.

The outage began after 12pm ET on Thursday, according to CenturyLink’s status page, and continues to cause disruption across 911 call centers. Some states have seen their services restored. CenturyLink has not said what caused the outage beyond an issue with a “network element,” but said in its latest update — around 11am ET on Friday — that the company said that it was “seeing good progress, but our service restoration work is not complete.”

In a tweet, the telecoms giant said it was “working tirelessly” to get its affected systems back up and running.

CenturyLink, one of the largest telecommunications providers in the U.S., provides internet and phone backbone services to major cell carriers, including AT&T and Verizon. Data center or fiber issues can have a knock-on effect to other companies, cutting out service and causing cell site blackouts.

In this case, the outage affected only cellular calls to 911, and not landline calls.

Several states sent emergency alerts to residents’ cell phones warning of the outage.


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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday December 30 2018, @04:52AM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Sunday December 30 2018, @04:52AM (#779901) Homepage Journal

    Just since last evening, from time to time I can't ping such 1.1.1.1. Disconnecting and reconnecting the wifi always fixes it.

    My T-Mobile data was dropping dead from time to time late this afternoon but after five or ten minutes it would work just fine again.

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