(Jared Soares for The Washington Post)Federal authorities said they will investigate a nationwide outage that kept AT&T customers from being able to contact 911 on Wednesday night. “Every call to 911 must go through,” Ajit Pai, the FCC chairman, said in a statement announcing the probe. (@ArlingtonTxFire) March 9, 2017Issues involving 911 outages have drawn public attention in recent years. In Washington state alone, every resident appeared to have lacked “fully functioning 911 service” for up to six hours, the FCC said. “Access to 911 emergency services is essential for all Americans, especially the most vulnerable.

Source: Washington Post March 09, 2017 19:13 UTC