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It&#8217;s estimated that hundreds of calls failed to get through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It is a bedrock principle embedded in the Commission&#8217;s rules that reliable 911 service must be available to all persons in the United States at all times,&#8221; the agency said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.fcc.gov\/public\/attachments\/DA-24-578A1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">order<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The outage happened just two months after a similar incident in October 2022. 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