• @[email protected]
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    14 months ago

    I was under the impression that a company (AT&T) owns the tower, and they can lease out connections from that tower to other providers. They are also required by law to route 911 calls for free, but I can see a scenario if they botched the routing where 911 would not be accessible from that tower.

    • RedFox
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      24 months ago

      They don’t always own the tower. Like everything in America, another company fronts the cost, att pays them for tower use. And the other carriers. It’s a business model.

    • @UppitPuppet
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      14 months ago

      That makes sense. I wonder how many AT&T towers were affected. To my knowledge, no one in my area on the east coast was affected if they tried calling 911, just standard numbers.