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Re:Dutch Telephone Outage Takes Out Nation's Emergency Number by jacquesm on Monday June 24, 2019 @01:19PM (#20265930)
> 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.

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Re:Dutch Telephone Outage Takes Out Nation's Emergency Number by LeonM on Monday June 24, 2019 @01:27PM (#20266027)
Like I said, they will have to make one under government pressure, but I bet you they won't publicly release it.
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Re:Dutch Telephone Outage Takes Out Nation's Emergency Number by yellowapple on Monday June 24, 2019 @01:44PM (#20266240)
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.

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Re:Dutch Telephone Outage Takes Out Nation's Emergency Number by sambe on Monday June 24, 2019 @02:41PM (#20266919)
Neither do any of the other Scotsmen I know.
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Re:Dutch Telephone Outage Takes Out Nation's Emergency Number by vectorEQ on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @04:16AM (#20272092)
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
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Re:Dutch Telephone Outage Takes Out Nation's Emergency Number by foota on Monday June 24, 2019 @01:42PM (#20266220)
Does the Netherlands have something like Congressional hearings? Could come out at something like that.
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Re:Dutch Telephone Outage Takes Out Nation's Emergency Number by sandermvanvliet on Monday June 24, 2019 @02:04PM (#20266475)
Yes, it’s called a “parlementaire enquête” but it’s a fairly heavy handed tool to wield so it’s not done very often
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Re:Dutch Telephone Outage Takes Out Nation's Emergency Number by jacquesm on Monday June 24, 2019 @02:28PM (#20266758)
This is what happened last time:

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

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