Mobile phone and internet service from Nashville to Alabama is still disrupted due to the Christmas Day bombings in Nashville.
The problems affect the 911 service, along with the network within a major regional hospital.
Service crashed in the area when a caravan full of bombs exploded outside an AT&T building in downtown Nashville early Friday.
NewsChannel 5 reported that the cut affected 911 transactions, in addition to consumer services on the AT&T and T-Mobile networks.
On Saturday morning, the Sumner Regional Medical Center in Gallatin, Tennessee, about 30 miles north of Nashville, was still seeing network and system problems, according to local ABC affiliate WKRN.
The hospital currently operates without access to electronic medical records and was forced to change roles.
The AT&T company said in a public statement earlier Saturday that it had two portable cell sites operating in downtown Nashville. The company is deploying additional portable sites in the Nashville area and region, he said.
A fire re-ignited overnight in the damaged facilities, forcing an evacuation.
The company focuses on restoring the property’s electricity. “Currently, our teams are working on site with security and structural engineers,” the statement said. “They have drilled access holes to the building and are trying to reconnect power to critical equipment. The technical teams are also working as quickly as possible to redirect additional services to other facilities in the region to restore service.”
Service outages were reported across the country, but the area that had the greatest impact extended from downtown Tennessee to Kentucky and Alabama, The Tennessean reported.
Communications problems were behind a brief flight stop at Nashville International Airport and departing this Friday. Flights were still delayed about 15 minutes Saturday morning, the Federal Aviation Administration’s website said.