FCC Wants Verizon to Investigate 10,000 Dropped Emergency Calls During Winter Storms
This is a discussion on FCC Wants Verizon to Investigate 10,000 Dropped Emergency Calls During Winter Storms within the Android News forums, part of the Android.net category; Do you remember that winter super-storm that blanketed half the U.S. in snow and ice last month? Apparently, Verizon had over 10,000 dropped emergency calls ...
-
Editor in Chief
FCC Wants Verizon to Investigate 10,000 Dropped Emergency Calls During Winter Storms
Do you remember that winter super-storm that blanketed half the U.S. in snow and ice last month? Apparently, Verizon had over 10,000 dropped emergency calls during the chilling event, which for some people made it even more 'chilling'. This outage affected Montgomery and Prince George’s counties in Maryland.
The FCC found this to be "truly alarming", and has asked Verizon to investigate why it happened and how to prevent it in the future. One of the things that made it even more significant to the FCC was that the emergency services that missed these calls were not even made aware of the connectivity failure. Jamie Barnett, chief of the FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, had this to say, “We are particularly concerned that this problem may be widespread across Verizon’s footprint.”
Harry Mitchell, a Verizon spokesman, indicated in an e-mail that the outage was triggered by a “mass call event.” This is little comfort as further sources indicate that this is not a unique event for Verizon, and the FCC is considering remedial actions and monitoring systems to prevent it happening again. Kinda puts a new spin on the whole, "can you hear me now?" marketing doesn't it? ("not if it's snowing really really hard in Maryland!")
Mitchell added, “We have been addressing this issue directly with the counties involved, and will work cooperatively to address the FCC’s questions, as well." This is a big enough deal that It is obvious Verizon will scramble to fix this to try and prevent it from ever happening again.
Source: Engadget
-
Android.net is the premier
Android Forum. Registered users do not see these ads. .
http://www.scramblerducati.org/
Posting Permissions
- You may not post new threads
- You may not post replies
- You may not post attachments
- You may not edit your posts
-
Forum Rules
Similar Threads
-
By probbiethe1 in forum Android Forum
Replies: 25
Last Post: 09-20-2011, 03:16 PM
-
By fsrelax in forum Samsung Galaxy S
Replies: 1
Last Post: 02-15-2011, 08:50 AM
-
By jnd121 in forum Verizon
Replies: 16
Last Post: 01-28-2011, 05:19 PM
-
By OneTenderRebel in forum Off-Topic Forum
Replies: 17
Last Post: 01-22-2011, 09:34 PM
-
By G2 Forum User in forum HTC G2
Replies: 2
Last Post: 11-19-2010, 08:23 AM
Search tags for this page
g2 vibrates on a call
,
how to make g2 not vibrate while on phone
,
images of verizon network guy
,
images verizon network guy
,
verizon dropped emergency
,
verizon guy
,
verizon network guy
,
verizon network people picture
Click on a term to search our sites for related topics.