brandonalex

Latest

  • Bloomberg via Getty Images

    T-Mobile 'ghost calls' to 911 linked to two deaths in Dallas

    by 
    Timothy J. Seppala
    Timothy J. Seppala
    03.16.2017

    911 outages as a result of cellphones have been a problem before, especially for T-Mobile, and it looks like the issue still hasn't been resolved. In the past week, an infant and an adult male died as a result of calls to 911 not being handled promptly, according to the Dallas Morning News. When a T-Mobile customer calls 911 in Dallas, the publication says that the phone will continuously dial 911 and the call center registers them as hang-ups. The 911 dispatchers need to then call the numbers back to verify the calls, which in turn means legitimate callers are placed on hold.