22 Dec
2021
22 Dec
'21
1:07 p.m.
https://wpln.org/post/the-christmas-day-bombing-cut-off-emergency-communicat... It’s been nearly a year since an RV exploded outside an AT&T data center in downtown Nashville. Damage from the blast resulted in major disruptions to phone and internet service for days, including to 911 call centers — more than 60 in Tennessee. Both the state and AT&T have been working to prevent similar outages in the future. [...] “I’m not trying to get up here and be an apologist for AT&T by any means, whatsoever,” he told the board in May, a few months before the contract was approved. “But they did do a very good job answering our questions.”