WP: Nashville bombing is a potent reminder that communications systems remain at risk from attack

Tue Dec 29 03:30:45 UTC 2020

A bunch of quotes from former government officials. Not much from 
industry.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/nashville-bombing-is-a-potent-reminder-that-communications-systems-remain-at-risk-from-attack/2020/12/28/d734b76c-4949-11eb-839a-cf4ba7b7c48c_story.html
Nashville bombing is a potent reminder that communications systems remain 
at risk from attack

[...]
Experts applauded the telecommunications giant for responding quickly to 
the explosion by deploying portable cellular sites to help restore some 
service. But they were alarmed by the widespread nature of the outages, 
both in terms of geography as well as the variety of services affected. 
Key to constructing systems that can withstand attacks and natural 
disasters — and recover quickly — is avoiding a single point of failure, 
they said.
[...]