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> There's literally 911 call center transport circuits being held together by the telco equivalent of duct tape and string right now, nobody notices until it br
by LeoPanthera 3y ago
> There's literally 911 call center transport circuits being held together by the telco equivalent of duct tape and string right now, nobody notices until it breaks.
And break it does.
https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/911-dispatch-system-in-oakland-fails-again/ https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/911-dispatch-system-in-o...
- com 3y agoI contracted for a telco who held a national emergency number contract, and after they fired all the old engineers and the inevitable outages started happening, had to budget a significant amount per month for flowers for families of the deceased who weren’t able to reach anybody during heart attacks etc. It would have been better if it was really big SLA breach fines however.