'Basically, people were notifying the operator at St. John Jane Phillips Campus in Bartlesville, the medical center and nearby doctor's offices were not getting outside calls.Ĭhief nursing officer, Jennifer Butler, said the health system let patients know to call an 800-number instead. In Bartlesville, the Chamber of Commerce's phone lines were down. In Okmulgee, the sheriff's office, county courthouse and county jail also had technical issues, especially with its non-emergency line. 'This morning, a lot of our 911 calls were routed automatically, when the system failed, to the Glenpool Police Department, who was then able to call us on the cell phone and relay the information, and to our knowledge, no emergency went unaddressed,' said Blish. The customers impacted said that AT&T told them it was a fiber optic cut on a line that led to the outages in Bixby, Bartlesville and Okmulgee.īixby Police Chief Todd Blish said the outage impacted his staff, along with the city and fire department. Phone service is restored for a hospital, courthouse and even 911 dispatch after an AT&T outage left them without working land lines for hours. AT&T Phone Outage Left Many Without Working Land Line Service

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