https://wpln.org/post/the-christmas-day-bombing-cut-off-emergency-communications-across-tennessee-heres-whats-changed-since/
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.”
