IEEE Spectrum highlighted an FCC report into a 911 outage in April 2014, which resulted in over 11 million Americans.. or about three and half percent of the population of the United States, being at risk of not being able to reach emergency help through 911.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.funkypenguin.co.nz/opinion/monitoring-lessons-learned-fcc-report-911-outage/