Qwest told the Wyoming Public Service Commission it has spent $9 ...
Qwest told the Wyoming Public Service Commission it has spent $9 million the past 12 months to make its 911 service more resistant to major outages such as an August 2006 cable cut incident that knocked out E-911 across…
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most of the state. In a report called for by the PSC, Qwest said it invested the $9 million on six projects to upgrade routers and install redundant fiber lines and microwave backups for critical 911 fiber routes. Qwest said it spent $2.7 million on a 50-mile fiber line and microwave backups between Evanston and Kemmerer for redundancy in the most critical segments of its E-911 network. It said it also overhauled 911 routing equipment in Cody and installed microwave backup links for lines passing through there. Qwest said it’s hoping that the state Office of Homeland Security will agree to pick up some costs of the 911 improvements.