A nationwide outage of 911 service affected AT&T Wireless customers for about 90 minutes Wednesday night, including service in the District and suburban jurisdictions. “Aware of issue affecting some calls to 911 for wireless customers. It also was unclear how many people in the region were affected by the 911 outage. And in Prince George’s County, police spokeswoman Jennifer Donelan tweeted “Nationwide AT&T outage now affecting Prince George’s County 9-1-1: Residents w/AT&T DIAL 301-352-1243 for emergency assistance. No immediate cause was released for the outage, and it was not clear when 911 service would be restored for AT&T Wireless customers.

Source: Washington Post March 09, 2017 03:22 UTC