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AT&T Fined $5.25M for Two 911 Outages that Affected 15,000+ Emergency Calls
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If companies are repeat offenders they should get higher fines.
And then there's this:
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Sure, because it wasn't 100% clear that the OP meant 'cellular provider' partner when she or he said 'cellular partner'. You don't care what people actually meant or what others understood it as, you only care about finding a technicality that allows you to say: 'You are wrong'.You’re both wrong, barking up inappropriate vegetation or something.
Motorola was Apple’s first ‘cellular’ partner:
That is the favorite pastime of the Mac Rumor's keyboard warrior club, that and pointing out any typo.
And it is not that one couldn't mention the Motorola cooperation as another early contact with the cellular world, one just doesn't have to start it with: 'You are wrong'.
This is exactly what the FCC should be doing. They are tasked with ensuring the availability of 911 emergency service, which they do through regulation and enforcement. Absent fines like this one, companies would have no incentive to comply with the regulations.
The mentality here is that the government is your deity to "protect" you. The government is the one that has put those regulations in the first place. These laws and regulations are as immoral as almost any other law they make. The government doesn't care if you call 911 or not, it is using that regulation to fine companies for it's own benefit. People are blind and foolish to think it is for their benefit. There are so many assertions that are wrong in your statement, but you will never see it
Take care buddy and welcome to the USSR 2.0 aka SDA (Social Democracy of America), formerly known as the USA (RIP).
[doublepost=1530285475][/doublepost]Saddest part is russians criticizing our government.
Nope, this outage affected all 911 users. There really isn't any difference between phones that use VoIP in a modem versus copper lines anymore. Telephone companies are converting all their systems to VoIP. They are ripping out their TDM switches and replacing them with basically giant VoIP adapters at the central office (media gateways or softswitches).
The mentality here is that the government is your deity to "protect" you. The government is the one that has put those regulations in the first place. These laws and regulations are as immoral as almost any other law they make. The government doesn't care if you call 911 or not, it is using that regulation to fine companies for it's own benefit. People are blind and foolish to think it is for their benefit. There are so many assertions that are wrong in your statement, but you will never see it
what? this is nonsense. Virtually every single major advanced nation has some form of emergency line that is easy to dial to reach fire, ambulance or police services. these are typically government agency run in order to facilitate providing as broad range coverage for protection and safety of the citizenry.
having these lines go down and unavailable because a vendor is too cheap to ensure proper fault tolerance is absolutely in the best interest of any of these societies to ensure that they can be kept safe.
Imagine for a second having your house on fire and you go to call 9-1-1 to reach fire services to at least save some semblance of your personal property, if not a loved one who might be trapped inside, only to get a busy signal and no one comes to help. The government is not our "Deity" to protect us. The government is OUR SERVANT to protect us. we pay for these services via taxation and they should be available to us at our call in case of emergency.
Giving private enterprise free reign to cheap out on providing access to these services is ludicrous thinking. these companies have a civic duty to ensure that these services are not hindered by their own corporate governance or greed.
If a company doesn't like that these are services that they must provide, than they are free to close their doors and leave.
I'm not american, so already your opinion is rendered completely inaccurate that this is some US government heavy handed activity. These are ideals that should be universal. All members of a functioning society should have access to emergency help.
It should be easy. If the client is getting the call and refusing it, it can just compare the caller to the person you're calling. If the client is telling the server it's unavailable while it calls, it could also tell the server who it's calling so the server allows calls to the client if the caller is who the client is calling.
Even if it's hard, it's such a bad user experience problem that they should put a lot of effort into fixing it. Often times people initiate these calls via text first, so it's very common to call each other at the same time. Somehow these companies just don't get it. Similarly, Google Hangouts makes it very difficult to call people or join meetings in some cases, enough that in a 10-person meeting, one person is delayed trying to get in.
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Cause the other ones all have bad cell service in the two major cities I've lived in. IDK about their home ISP, though.
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Actually it was the reverse. Cingular bought AT&T wireless.
http://money.cnn.com/2004/02/17/technology/cingular_att/
No, the company pays, then they maybe raise prices. Or maybe not. Usually less than how much they have to pay.
AT&T has announced that DirectTV Now rates will increase by $5 beginning in August. It begins with that.
Exactly! That’s shows how far you have fallen.
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Lol you just proved my point and you don’t even know it. Go hail FCC and other government agencies, today is even that very special day of your annual tribute.