AT&T Redirects Salt Lake City 911 Calls to Seattle

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[citation][nom]Shez[/nom]C'mon. No one has a snappy 'There's a map for that' comment?[/citation]
yeah, there is...a very big one!

 

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[citation][nom]hundredsofmiles[/nom]"AT&T customers needing the assistance of the emergency services were last night connected to operators thousands of miles away."Thousands of miles? It's only ~842 miles from Seattle to Salt Lake City . . .[/citation]
see scrappy77 comment above...

 

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[citation][nom]HalJordan[/nom]Sorry, I forgot my /sarcasm tag.[/citation]
I got it...

 

[insightdriver]

What makes it worse is AT&T was going to point the finger but the police (which I am sure have as many I phones among them as the general population)told them that all the AT&T phones they tried had the same problem. Imagine one person, not knowing, trying to blame them.

 

[Parsian]

This is one of those unacceptable and not even funny FAILs...
Good to hear nobody died or seriously injured (i hope that is the case)

 

[backin5]

[citation][nom]Shez[/nom]C'mon. No one has a snappy 'There's a map for that' comment?[/citation]

Well, I was gonna write "I don't think there's a map for that", but you kind of ruined it... 🙁

No hard feelings though

 

[jalek]

From the story headline, I was going to say so what? I had my land line routed to another state when they were doing a trunk "upgrade", and AT&T tried charging me $40 for a local call since their routing made it long distance and I had to have operator assistance to even get that.

911 service though, makes it a different sort of thing when it's more than just one house that's SOL.

 

[blackmancer]

maybe they were upgrading/fixing their systems, redirected and forgot about the really important stuff, lol 🙁

 

[dreamphantom_1977]

So I guess the new commercials should include something like this:

Verizon- If you want to live
AT&T- If you like to gamble with your life

 

[bstm300]

Luke Wilson is a bit of a jerk, by the way or seems jerky anyway.

 

[shqtth]

AT&T 911 service is just like their 3G service = LACKING

 

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[citation][nom]bstm300[/nom]Luke Wilson is a bit of a jerk, by the way or seems jerky anyway.[/citation]
yeah he definitely sucks

 

[jsc]

New meaning to, "Dial 911, call an ambulance, order a pizza, and see who arrives first."