[EAS] Resolved- Nationwide AT&T Mobility 9-1-1 outage

[Sean Donelan]

On Fri, 10 Mar 2017, Mike McCarthy wrote:
> Get enough generals, admirals, and congress critters who can't talk to
> their staff and the toner won't even be cold before a bill lands on the
> POTUS's desk mandating hardened infrastructure cost be damned.

After the derecho in June 2012 disrupted 9-1-1 service in eleven 
states including Virginia, Maryland and Ohio; the FCC conducted an 
investigation. Some of the outages lasted several days.

Overall 17 PSAPs (9-1-1 answering points) were completely down, and 60 
PASPs experienced partial outages.

https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-318331A1.pdf

Politicians tend to forget about prepardness, until the next time it 
happens.

Issues with public alerting and warning systems tend to have the same 
causes, mostly lack of prepardness, training, testing, delegation of 
authority, etc.  Until the crisis happens, and then people respond and do 
a heroric job.

Just because, and not to take away from, people respond in heroric ways 
during a crisis doesn't mean there weren't problems.