By Josh Beckerman 
 

The Federal Communications Commission said it is investigating a nationwide CenturyLink Inc. (CTL) outage that affected 911 service, calling it "completely unacceptable."

According to media reports, the CenturyLink outage began Thursday, contributing to problems including busy signals on 911 lines, issues at ATMs and service interruptions for some Verizon Communications (VZ) wireless customers.

On Thursday night, CenturyLink tweeted that a "network element" had affected service, and said mid-day Friday that it was "seeing good progress," but restoration isn't complete.

 

Write to Josh Beckerman at josh.beckerman@wsj.com

 

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

December 28, 2018 13:56 ET (18:56 GMT)

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