T-Mobile users may not be able to reach 911, Allegheny County says
911 calls from T-Mobile cell phone customers may not be able to get through to Allegheny County’s emergency dispatching center due to an outage, the county said Monday afternoon.
The outage affecting T-Mobile customers was reported shortly before 5:30 p.m., the county said in an alert.
The carrier does not know when the issue will be resolved, said Amie M. Downs, county spokeswoman.
A land lines are not affected by the outage, nor are other wireless carriers, Downs said.
Joe Napsha is a TribLive reporter covering Irwin, North Huntingdon and the Norwin School District. He also writes about business issues. He grew up on Neville Island and has worked at the Trib since the early 1980s. He can be reached at jnapsha@triblive.com.
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