AT&T Has to Pay Up Millions After Two Major 911 Outages Last Year
The Federal Communications Commission just settled an investigating intoAT&T 911 outages from last twelvemonth , hitting the telecom company with a $ 5.25 million fine . The FCC ’s Enforcement Bureau madethe announcementon Thursday , stating that “ such preventable outages are unsufferable . ” away from the amercement — which is really a drop cloth in the pail for thebillion - dollar giant — AT&T must also make changes and enhancements to its systems to mitigate and soften the blow of future outage , as well as “ on a regular basis file compliance report card with the FCC ....