'Completely Unacceptable' CenturyLink Network Outage Prompts $500,000 FCC Fine [telecom]

by Edward Gately

A December 2018 CenturyLink network outage has prompted the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to fine the telco $500,000.

In this week's order, the Commission's enforcement bureau said its consent decree and the fine resolves its investigation into the outage. The CenturyLink network outage lasted about 37 hours.

The lengthy outage impacted CenturyLink's delivery of some 911 calls.

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