T-Mobile to pay $17.5 million over last year’s 911 nationwide outage

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by Sindy Cator on July 17, 2015 at 8:41 pm

Last August, T-Mobile customers were unable to reach 911 emergency personnel on two occasions for a total of three hours. And now the company will pay the price: $17.5 million. An FCC investigation into the 911 outages concluded that they affected T-Mobile customers nationwide, preventing some 50 million people from calling 911 with their mobile phones during that period. Moreover, T-Mobile failed to follow FCC guidelines requiring carriers to notify customers about such failures. The company has vowed to overhaul its procedures to avoid any repeat incidents in the future as part of the settlement. FCC chairman Tom Wheeler stated, “The Commission has no…