For many business customers they will be contractually obliged to provide a root cause analysis (pretty standard for telcos).

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).

s/darn high/darn low/ ?

Ah yes, my bad - meant that it would be highly unlikely to stay out of public circulation.

High odds are for unlikely events. Low odds means something will probably happen. People often use the expression the other way around.

> What makes you think a telco will ever do a publicly accessible post-mortem after an outage?

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.

Like I said, they will have to make one under government pressure, but I bet you they won't publicly release it.

In an actual democracy, they would be required to release it to the public, since they work for the public (and provide public services/infrastructure) and thus are accountable to the public.

Unfortunately, I don't know of any such actual democracy.

Neither do any of the other Scotsmen I know.

if it's released to government it's in the public domain as the government serves the public... oh wait :D ... democracy never happend :D i remember now

Does the Netherlands have something like Congressional hearings? Could come out at something like that.

Yes, it’s called a “parlementaire enquête” but it’s a fairly heavy handed tool to wield so it’s not done very often

This is what happened last time:

https://www.nu.nl/internet/2779095/onderzoek-112-storingen-k...

Is this based on history or just an attitudinal expression? If the latter, it's not helpful to discourage people when they are in the midst of dealing with a problem.