[Music] yo what's going on you guys it's your boy official Tim Tech bang 18c shout out 950 million after quad State 911 outage service takes another just as a settlement is announced us Telo giant AT&T has reached a settlement with the Federal Communications Commission and will pay nearly 1 million after shutting down 911 emergency calls to four states last year outage hit services in parts of Illinois Candace Texas and Wisconsin August 20 22nd 2023 and only lasted 74 minutes but if you were one of the estimated 400 people trying to use the service and can be can have be been fun in addition to the phys financial settlement agency will be monitoring for 3 years to make sure it's fulfilling its Emergency Services provisioning responsibilities and a notifications Services providers have been had an obligation to transmit 91 calls notify 91 call centers allow ites in t manner declared if DF FCC chair woman Jessica our rules are designed to protect the public Ure Public Safety and faicial can inform consumers alternative ways to reach emergeny services in event of an outage outage was caused when 18 and ATC engineer running unscheduled maintenance shed part of the network for normal maintenance testing would have been carried out first to see how the shutdown would affect the rest of the network this wasn't since this wasn't done since it was in part to attempt to and never fix in keeping with many such actions by the US government agencies this is settlement not toine me Miss excuse me the cost of equal to less than an hour a profit according to the Telo last quarterly earnings statement making equals to 74 minutes have been proportional at least within hour hours of dealing with FCC being announced at suffered another 911 the last a couple hours in New York Houston Chicago and Charlotte North Carolina the B claimed the problem was a software fall neworking addressal software theability of limited numbers of customers connect to our wireless network is she told us on USA Today no doubt another administrate slap on the wrist is coming that an accident PR might be facing much bigger charge for an outage in February this year all CA us white outage including Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Island stage lasted 12 hours and shut shut down all services not just 911 we Implement change to prevent what happened in February from occurring again it promise that it's a prise at at the time how's it going so far all right that basically Opps it of for today's video sound off in the comment section down below what do you guys think of this article this is crazy news breaking news of AT&T slap on the wrist of the 911 out excuse me sorry about to keep yawning y'all I i' been I've been awake for a while but I woke up kind of early that's probably why I'm yawning but anyways I'll be making many more Tech videos coming out soon stay tuned folks and um much love and M respect to all youat B Squad um Timmy's fam nation and um please check out my other content in this channel I just made this channel so I'm trying to grow it to at least 21k subscribers like my old official Tech channel that one was was not going so well but this one's a brand new start starting from scratch so anyways that today's video talk to next video have a blessed weekend thank you all for watching till next time up relax meet you at Tim on signing out deuces bye peace e e