Neb. PSC Sets 911 Outage Probe Hearings

The Nebraska Public Service Commission on Wednesday scheduled hearings in two 911 outage investigations. A hearing on Windstream’s outage (docket 911-076) will occur Dec. 20 at 9 a.m. CST; another on Lumen’s outage (docket 911-075) will happen Jan. 4 at 9:30 a.m. CST, the PSC said. The hearings will let Nebraska PSC commissioners “ask questions and get answers directly from the carriers involved in these outages,” said Chair Dan Watermeier (R). Decisions will be made later, he said. The commission opened the probes in September in response to the carriers’ back-to-back 911 outages (see 2309120046).