
Verizon officials said that they did not know emergency service was out during the derecho storm that hit the Washington area last month, The Washington Post reported, until the company was contacted by the county. A report to be released Wednesday shows that Verizon saw “significant problems”with its systems — problems that the company had previously denied. In the report, the company said that it made mistakes in the way it handled the outage, and Verizon official Maureen Davis said that Verizon’s response was “insufficient for what we were dealing with.” Read the full story at The Washington Post.