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State utility regulators have voted to increase reporting requirements.
By Mike Hughlett
CenturyLink faces beefed-up reporting requirements for its Minnesota
911 contract after a state report found the company did not adequately respond to a major outage last August, which led to almost 700 dropped emergency calls.
"There was a gigantic failure by CenturyLink and its vendor," Katie Sieben, chairwoman of the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC), said at a commission meeting Thursday.
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