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AT&T is giving customers a $5 credit for its cellphone outage. Some angry customers say it's not enough.::AT&T announced a $5 credit toward a future phone bill and said it "let down many of our customers" as a result of the outage.

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[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

FirstNet was down on top of regular cell service. It’s not your ability to call 911, it’s how devices inside fire trucks for example connect to the internet and receive information, how volunteer firemen receive digital pages, etc.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Well I’ll tell you one thing, there’s always a lot of discourse on why firehouses in the U.S. still use a siren when digital paging exists. This is why.