Ofcom probes BT over 999 glitch

UK telco watchdog Ofcom has launched an investigation into BT following a widespread outage of the 999 emergency call service.
A technical fault on Sunday affected 999’s availability nationwide, forcing BT, which handles and routes the calls, to temporarily switch to a back-up system.
However, as pointed out at the time by London’s Metropolitan Police, the back-up system was not as effective at providing location data, making it harder to pinpoint where emergencies were occurring. It