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

[Sean Donelan]

On Fri, 10 Mar 2017, Mike McCarthy wrote:
> That's my point...the reality impact doesn't often happen to the ultimate
> policy creators when isolated from their various constituencies. It's
> always 2nd hand information relayed after the fact. Such relay never (or
> rarely) contains the first hand experienced impact however.  And when it
> does occur, it's still only one, two, or a few out of 535 lawmakers.

Approximately 70% of PSAPs experience some type of outage each year.  Most 
PSAP outages are small and short; but some aren't.

Verizon fined $3.4 million for April 2014 outage
Centurylink fined $16 million for April 2014 outage
Intrado fined $1.4 million for April 2014 outage
T Mobile fined $17.5 million for August 2014 outages
GCI (Alaska) fined $2.4 million for five outages between 2008 and 2015
Sprint find $1.2 million for multiple 911 problems in 2014