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by Pocketknife 2000 days ago
There is fiber to thst building as well. I'm in Cumberland County right now and the towers are down. Wi-Fi calling only.

Also no 911 service, which astounds me until I remember it's the government running it.

Imagine an emergency response system so fragile cutting power to one building fucks it for half a state?

My one man company has better disaster tolerance than the 911 system? Insane.

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The telcos run the 911 system for the gov. But if the telco building is down then even if 911 was up they couldn't switch the calls through to it. But agree, sounds like a major fubar.

A lot of the fiber from the cell towers to the cell switching offices is supplied by the local telco, in this case AT&T. I wonder if the other wireless carriers are effected?