CenturyLink vendor again blamed for multi-state 911 outage [telecom]

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By Tad Vezner

The CenturyLink vendor responsible for a major 911 outage in 2014 was also responsible for the multi-state disruption that led to an untold number of unanswered emergency calls Wednesday, officials said.

"I have never in my 30 years experienced an outage such as what we experienced yesterday," Dana Wahlberg, director of the Department of Public Safety's emergency communication networks division, said during a press conference Thursday.