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BT fined millions for not connecting 999 calls

BT has been fined £17.5 million for a "catastrophic failure" in its emergency call handling service, which resulted in thousands of 999 calls not being handled. The network outage, which lasted more than ten hours on June 25, last year, resulted in 14,000 emergency calls failing to connect. After examining the business that manages the 999 phone system, Ofcom stated that the telecom giant was "ill-prepared" to respond to the crisis and fell "woefully short of its responsibilities".