A growing wave of outages and cyberattacks is punishing the nation's aged and underfunded emergency communications systems.

The Federal Communications Commission proposed new rules designed to enhance the accuracy of location information provided during 911 calls made from mobile phones.

Cybercriminals are using the chaos of the CrowdStrike outage to launch phony websites and new phishing campaigns, said a director with the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis…

Advocates for the next generation of 911 technologies said the lack of federal funding source could generate inequity of critical services.

The company said a recent outage affecting 14 states was caused by "an internal networking component that was not correctly forwarding traffic."

Funding authorized in 2012 is now being dispensed to 34 states and territories. But a full nationwide upgrade could require more than $12 billion.