CenturyLink CEO Blames Equipment Vendor for Outage Affecting 'Relatively Small Percentage' [telecom]

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By Edward Gately

CenturyLink's nationwide outage last month that affected 911 service for numerous consumers across the country could have been a lot worse, says the telco's president and CEO.

Jeff Storey discussed the outage at this week's 2019 Citi Global TMT West Conference in Las Vegas. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last week announced it is investigating the outage, but most of the agency's operations have been shut down since Jan. 3.