<div dir="ltr"><div><div>So I'm skeptical about the truth of this comment, and I'm wondering if someone could set me a bit straighter:<br><br>"These reckless perpetrators are risking the lives of countless Americans
by cutting access to key lines of communications, especially to local
police, fire and rescue personnel."<br><br></div>Don't the local lines to police / fire go through the 911 dispatch? Wouldn't that be a municipal (city-owned) communications platform? If this is the case, wouldn't landline calls to 911 still work just fine?<br><br></div><div>Wouldn't a non-Verizon cellphone still also be able to get a call through?<br><br><br></div><div><br></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Damian Menscher via Outages <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:outages@outages.org" target="_blank">outages@outages.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 11:30 AM, chris via Outages <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:outages@outages.org" target="_blank">outages@outages.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Anyone aware of any known outages/issues for FIOS? Have a handful of customers in northern NJ with business FIOS with 50%+ packet loss on all verizon hops. We have checked these customers and theres no congestion on their networks.<div><br></div><div>We're aware of the Verizon strike in progress and wondering if maybe some repair or maintenance is not being done because of the strike?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>...or possibly worse: <a href="http://www.verizon.com/about/news/criminals-put-thousands-verizon-customers-out-service-cutting-cables-and-damaging-network" target="_blank">http://www.verizon.com/about/news/criminals-put-thousands-verizon-customers-out-service-cutting-cables-and-damaging-network</a></div><div><br></div><div>Damian</div><span class=""><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>If anyone from VZ has ability to dig deeper or if anyone else is seeing similar issues would be good to hear.</div></div></blockquote></span></div></div></div>
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