One year since Nashville Christmas Day bombing (Dec 25, 2020)

[Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>]

https://wpln.org/post/the-christmas-day-bombing-cut-off-emergency-communications-across-tennessee-heres-whats-changed-since/

It’s been nearly a year since an RV exploded outside an AT&T data center 
in downtown Nashville. Damage from the blast resulted in major disruptions 
to phone and internet service for days, including to 911 call centers — 
more than 60 in Tennessee.

Both the state and AT&T have been working to prevent similar outages in 
the future.

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“I’m not trying to get up here and be an apologist for AT&T by any means, 
whatsoever,” he told the board in May, a few months before the contract 
was approved. “But they did do a very good job answering our questions.”