T-Mobile has agree to a $17.5 million settlement with the FCC, after two related 911 outages knocked out emergency call services for a combined 3 hours.
The outages happened on August 8th of last year, according to the FCC, and affected almost 50 million T-Mobile subscribers nationwide. The agency found that T-Mobile did not properly notify officials of the outage, and that the carrier could have prevented the outage with proper safeguards. As part of the settlement, T-Mobile has also agreed to implement a new system to identify outages and more quickly recover from them.
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iOS users are unaffected (for now).
