They will probably have to do one under government pressure, but it'll be so heavily NDA'd that no one will ever read it.
The fact that they have a lot of egg on their face after a similar outage in 2012. Heads will roll over this one and politicians will certainly want answers.
https://www.nu.nl/internet/2779095/onderzoek-112-storingen-k...
Unfortunately, I don't know of any such actual democracy.
So if they don't publicly out the report, then the odd's of it staying contained out of public eye are pretty darn high.
The only area in which they could curtail it's release would be if some terrorist type factor or related activity that they could class in that catch-all definition. But even then, details will emerge and it would only delay its publication to fulfill their contractual obligations (think mobile telcos and large business that contract network capacity and links from them with lovely contract SLA's).
Usually for each NPA (the 3 digit # after the area code) anything ending in 911 redirects to that locality's 911.
This was used by griefers on the early net. You say "you wanna call me up huh go ahead my phone number is XXX-XXX-X911" and they get connected with the police.
That much is obvious. A single switchboard can also cover multiple towns in some circumstances.
>In larger cities it could be zone based. But "911" always has a second # that can directly connect you, ending in 911.
I'll take your word for it since I'm obviously not going to check... I just checked my local PD and I can't find any mention of this whatsoever on their website.
You can always call the police dept. their # will be on their site
If 911 is down, you should call a specific police station. They will be broken down into zones or districts in larger cities, and I can see phone numbers for zones in two cities I've lived in on their sites.
Often in America a "911 outage" is really just an outage with the forwarding, but you could call a specific department.
The problem is in some places there is no city/county system.
Ex: in the suburbs of some cities you'll hit 3 townships in 3 miles, and knowing who to call is not easy even for long time residents.
Any string of numbers that includes 911 dials 911.
Reminds me of the quote or story that someone rather hired an ops engineer that accidentally dropped a database than someone who didn't. As the first one would go at more length preventing to do it again.
I would not trust any other telco to do this better. It seems to me the issue is the commercialization/privatization of KPN. Instead, we should go back to a more semi-public KPN that is assigned to cover this form of critical infrastructure.
Or alternatively, we should not have any telco be a single point of failure.
From https://tweakers.net/nieuws/84839/storing-112-was-opeenstape... :
One of the two fiber links had been down for three weeks, which went unnoticed because of lack of proper monitoring. When Eurofiber started their maintenance on the second link, they caused an outage that lasted all night.