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The Telecom Digest for Fri, 22 Jan 2021
Volume 40 : Issue 22 : "text" format

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PA: CenturyLink outage affecting 911 system
TN: Smyrna receives report on bombing impact
Action Items On Technology And Communication Policies In Front Of The Senate Commerce Committee
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20210121092752.C5262790@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 09:27:52 +0000 (UTC) From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: PA: CenturyLink outage affecting 911 system Adams County's 911 system could not take calls from cell phones and some landlines as of Wednesday evening, according to Adams County Emergency Services Director Warren Bladen. The outage began around 3 p.m. on Wednesday and was due to an unknown problem with CenturyLink, he said. It was affecting a seven-county area, said Bladen. https://www.gettysburgtimes.com/news/local/article_38743988-728f-51ef-a7ec-df7457ec57a6.html ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20210121101805.3A905790@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 10:18:05 +0000 (UTC) From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: TN: Smyrna receives report on bombing impact By Dan Epright Smyrna Town Manager Brian Hercules gave the Smyrna Town Council a report Tuesday night about the impact on the town's communications systems in the aftermath of the Christmas Day bombing in Nashville Hercules reported that the bombing near the Nashville AT&T commun- ications hub disabled Smyrna's 911 system, along with the other 911 systems in the county. Hercules said that many Town personnel were able to re-establish 911 communications in Smyrna within four hours with an alternate phone number. https://www.murfreesboropost.com/news/smyrna-receives-report-on-bombing-impact/article_19c67f24-5b20-11eb-a813-d388fcc78a11.html ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20210119210320.C5FCD790@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 21:03:20 +0000 (UTC) From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Action Items On Technology And Communication Policies In Front Of The Senate Commerce Committee by Christian T. Fjeld and Christopher Harvie With the Senate set to flip to Democratic control in the 117th Congress, albeit by a razor thin margin, the policy priorities for the upper chamber are likely to significantly change. In so doing, the various Senate committees will have new chairs, and their agendas will likely vary at least in part on the partisan make-up of the committees. https://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/social-media/1026262/action-items-on-technology-and-communication-policies-in-front-of-the-senate-commerce-committee?email_access=on ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Fri, 22 Jan 2021
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