I”m way behind in the thread - just some mental spitballing on the Nashville thing.....
Yes, I am pretty sure it was deliberate.
No, I don’t think that knocking out a single hub in AT&T’s network ‘should’ mess up communications. In our industry, the electric power industry, everything is redundant. Including operations center computer systems, and communications paths.
I would hope that any mission-critical comm system would have redundancy for just this type of situation. (seems that some things did not, but are they really “mission-critical”)
One might wonder what else is in that AT&T location, and I suspect that I’ll learn a lot more as I read on through the thread.
Has anyone postulated that the network outage was intentional after the incident? Wouldn’t knocking out all cell access be a useful or necessary precaution against rogue actors? Especially if there was suspicion of other bombs that may be triggered by cell phone?
Or other possible communications by the perpetrators to guarantee their escape? How do we know the outage was caused by the blast?