An East Tennessee lawmaker wants stronger oversight of the nation's telecommunications grid after a Christmas Day bombing in Nashville temporarily crippled infrastructure that caused 911 outages and a sudden unreliability in regional phone service. Suspected bomber Anthony Quinn Warner's explosion damaged an AT&T facility, which led to the outages. So maybe this will be an awakening for us as legislators to make sure that this doesn't happen again." AT&T confirmed to The Tennessean newspaper on Sunday that the 2nd Avenue N. building was damaged in the explosion, and that services were affected by the blast. "It shook your peace of mind and scarred the community that you call home.

Source: Fox News December 29, 2020 00:33 UTC