911 Outage: Impact and Response

in recent news a significant outage impacted emergency services in at least 14 States leading to delayed response times for emergency calls and difficulties in reaching 911 services the outage was notably severe on at nt's Network impacting their ability to facilitate 911 calls the Federal Communications Commission FCC and the cyber security and infrastructure Security Agency sisa are investigating the incident with a focus on understanding if any cyber security issues played a role despite initial fears there were no immediate signs of a cyber security breach in response to the inability to make voice calls affected areas advised residents to use text messages to contact 911 if needed