Flights out of Nashville halted because of telecommunications issues

[octoberlib]

Link to tweet

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[Renew Deal]

1. Sounds like a single point of failure

Nashville is trying to become a big city. They need to look at these things if they want to be serious.

[Klaralven]

4. Once deregulation happened in the mid '80s, design for survivability was no longer an objective.

Prior to breakup, the Bell System worked with DoD to design the network to survive outages. The telephone ratepayers ate the cost through regulated prices.

After the breakup, each network competed with the others on the basis of price, so the cost of survivable designs could not be supported.

[TrueBlueNV]

2. Explosion

There was a bomb set off in an RV near the AT&T building.

[kimbutgar]

3. Remember that right winger who said they were going to try to take out the electrical grid

Is this a first attempt at disrupting communications?

I hope they find these pos who did this!

Has the POS MF45 said anything about this incident?

[mikeysnot]

5. Could be interviewing people flying out

Cut off escape route via plane.

[House of Roberts]

6. My phone service is down in Huntsville, Alabama.

I just now tried a text that wouldn't go through.

https://www.waff.com/2020/12/25/major-att-outage-due-massive-explosion-downtown-nashville/