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ATT’s botched network update caused yesterday’s major wireless outage (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The outage was big enough that the Federal Communications Commission said its Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau was actively investigating.

No single company should be big enough to cause that kind of problem.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

No single publicly traded company*. Anything that interferes with government services had better have competition for the availability of contracts to service public good/government entities