FCC zaps CenturyLink with $16 million fine over 2014 911 outage

CenturyLink was slapped with a $16 million fine this week for a 911 failure in Minnesota and other states a year ago.

For more than six hours in April 2014, 11 million CenturyLink, Intrado Communications and Verizon customers in seven states could not reach emergency call centers, according to the Federal Communications Commission, which recently concluded an investigation of the event.

Intrado was fined $1.4 million and Verizon was fined $3.4 million last month.

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