Ground stop proves "we have to get off old network," Duffy says
CBS News reports that Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said "we have to get off old network, old telecom" after a telecommunication outage caused a nationwide ground stop on Friday. Duffy argued that the outage shows the need to move away from the older telecommunications network.
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Ground stop proves "we have to get off old network," Duffy says
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said that "we have to get off old network, old telecom" after a telecommunication outage led to a nationwide ground stop on Friday.
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Ground stop proves "we have to get off old network," Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says
As airways are still recovering from Friday's nationwide ground stop that led to a weekend of chaos, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that "we've got to get off old network, old telecom" as officials attributed the ground stop to aging system infrastructure and legacy technology.
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