Columbus 911 dispatchers experiencing issues with 'ghost calls'
A 6-month-old baby is dead and a glitch with cell phones and the 911 system is being blamed.A mother in Dallas says her babysitter was unable to get through to 911 because the system was clogged with what are called ghost calls. Ghost calls are made mistakenly by cell phones, particularly T-Mobile phones.Back in the fall, dispatchers in Columbus began to notice similar issues.“The call takers and others were picking up a pattern of where we would pick up something that we've termed crossta
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