Police departments and government officials across the country blamed AT&T Inc. for a 911 outage Wednesday night that prevented some people from contacting emergency responders for several hours. Police in the District of Columbia said AT&T suffered a nationwide 911 outage for cellphone callers and asked residents in the nation’s capital to try a local number to report emergencies. Police in nearby Alexandria, Va., posted a...

Source: Wall Street Journal March 09, 2017 03:16 UTC