Dutch Telephone Outage Takes Out Nation's Emergency Number
This has happened several times over the past couple of years in Belgium as well. Bugs and mishaps happen, and I'm sure the systems were designed to be fault tolerant. But perhaps it's time to stop relying on POTS alone for emergency numbers? Is there any particular reason we can't reach emergency services over the internet? Even something as banal as Skype or Facetime would make for a decent backup.