Cell phone and Internet service from Nashville to Alabama continues to be disrupted due to the Christmas Day bombing in Nashville.
The problems relate to the emergency center and the network within a large regional hospital.
Service lost in the region when a packed motor home exploded outside an AT&T building in downtown Nashville early Friday morning.
The outage affected 911 operations in addition to consumer services on the AT&T and T-Mobile networks, NewsChannel 5 reported.
Saturday morning, the Sumner Regional Medical Center in Gallatin, Tennessee, about 30 miles north of Nashville, still saw network and system problems, according to local ABC affiliate WKRN.
The hospital currently operates without access to electronic medical records and was forced to switch to paper.
The AT&T company said in a public statement early Saturday that it has two mobile locations in downtown Nashville. The company is rolling out additional mobile sites in the Nashville area and in the region, it said.
One night another fire flared up in the damaged facility, forcing an evacuation.
The company focuses on restoring the property’s power supply. “Currently, our teams are working on site with safety and constructors,” the statement said. “They have drilled access holes in the building and are trying to reconnect power to critical equipment. Technical teams are also working to reroute additional services to other facilities in the region as soon as possible to restore the service. “
Service outages were reported nationwide, but the area that felt the most impact extended from central Tennessee to Kentucky and Alabama, The Tennessean reported.
Communication issues were behind a short stop for flights to and from Nashville International Airport on Friday. Flights were still delayed about 15 minutes on Saturday morning, the Federal Aviation Administration website said.