A Massive Emergency Cellular Switch Exploded In Nashville, First Net Switch Taken Out, FBI Won’t Let Local PD Access The Infrastructure – No MSM Reports
An explosion shook the largely deserted streets of downtown Nashville early Christmas morning, shattering windows, damaging buildings, and wounding three people. Authorities said they believed the blast was intentional. The FBI is leading the investigation.
The police came across a suspicious RV parked outside a nearby AT&T building near Second Avenue and Commerce Street before 6 a.m., when initially responding to calls of shots fired in the area, said Metro police spokesperson Don Aaron.
There was no immediate evidence of any shooting but officers alerted the department’s bomb squad, which was en route when a “significant explosion” happened about 30 minutes later, Aaron said.
Locals reported gun shots before the explosion as you can see in the video below:
Gun shots? pic.twitter.com/nrfMIB9yx7
— RyMac (@theonlyrymac) December 25, 2020
Video of the explosion below:
The RV that was rigged with explosives had a loud speaker recording that announced a bomb would explode in 15 minutes. The FBI evacuated nearby buildings. The fact there was a tip off means personnel were not the target, so perhaps it was the AT&T building. #nashvilleexplosion pic.twitter.com/SRYAyNEDmF
— Syrian Girl 🎗️🇸🇾 (@Partisangirl) December 26, 2020
The explosion of an RV parked near a transmission building in Nashville disrupted AT&T service in the region and caused a ground stop at the city’s main airport, officials said.
“We continue to work to restore service for customers in Nashville and the surrounding areas who were affected by this morning’s explosion,” AT&T spokesman Jim Greer said in a statement hours after the incident. “We have mobilized additional resources including our National Disaster Recovery team and are bringing in multiple portable cell sites to assist in the recovery efforts.”
AT&T is deploying portable cell towers to Nashville to support law enforcement and improve wireless service. CNN’s parent company, WarnerMedia, is owned by AT&T.
An emergency responder cellular switch also exploded and shutdown the first net switch.
For all not familiar with FirstNet/ATT
The FirstNet mission is to deploy, operate, maintain, and improve the first high-speed, nationwide wireless broadband network for first responders, public safety, …
Many 1st responders have it.
Just two weeks ago AT&T scored a major win for FirstNet, landing a contract valued at around $92 million to provide FirstNet mobility services for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
The five-year deal is basically all new business for AT&T, according to Stacy Schwartz, VP of FirstNet Program at AT&T, and represents the largest commitment to FirstNet by a law enforcement or public safety agency to date.
“We’re extremely proud to be supporting a preeminent law enforcement agency like the FBI, we take a great deal of pride in working with them,” Schwartz told FierceWireless, adding that it’s a big accomplishment for AT&T and FirstNet.
Local patriots did post some interesting stuff and alleged that the target could have been the AT&T Nashville building, and why did someone target the building.
Heads up y'all
From a fren:
"A massive emergency cellular switch just exploded in Nashville, just a heads up. Im en route now.
"The switch that blew housed most of the traffic for “first net” the main cellular network for first responders"
Unsure of why it exploded so far
— RyMac (@theonlyrymac) December 26, 2020
Gun shots? Who? Why?
Why countdown?
Street level view of explosion shows it didn’t originate from “the rv”
Att snags FBI biz from Verizon with a 92M first net contract months ago
First net switch taken out – no msm reports
Perfectly rehearsed crisis actor
Wtf is Going on?
— RyMac (@theonlyrymac) December 26, 2020
Some more context on the technical stuff:
“We” don’t lose cell service. Just first responders/people with first net service. The fucked part is that whoever designed it PURPOSEFULLY built in an extremely obvious hole in the proverbial armor, with just one backup. This exists for the SAKE of security.. think abt it.
— Ev (@evergregorius) December 26, 2020
BREAKING!!
The explosion that happened this morning was located in close proximity to the AT&T Nashville Data Center located 333 Commerce St. Nashville, TN. It's a well known that AT&T Data Centers farm out server space to many of the 3 letter agencies. This was a planned attack— To Ride, Shoot Straight & Speak the Truth (@Beelezebubba) December 25, 2020
I'm in Nashville – the detonation woke me up – shook my bldg.
RV at 2nd and Commerce – outside ATT building w telecom equipment. Rapid fire shots fired before 6 am – Police saw rv, called bomb squad and were clearing the area when bomb went off at 6:30 am sharp!— godrus21 (@godrus21) December 25, 2020
Some people alleged that the bomb did not happen at the main ATT building, whosee address is (AT&T Building, 333 Commerce St, Nashville, TN 37201) . It happened about 2 blocks away and the Bell South Building which seems to have been closed for years, google maps. Likely where they have all the att servers which most people would not know. It looks like there was a small att phone store on the street level of the bell south building but why go there if your main building is a couple of blocks away.
The feds wouldn’t even let local PD and the infrastructure engineers to fix it according to this brave patriot:
This is interesting especially when you take into context what I relayed to this thread
The feds wouldn't even let local PD in and the infrastructure engineers to fix it
— RyMac (@theonlyrymac) December 26, 2020
As of this morning, the Federal Aviation Administration has classified the airspace around the site of Friday morning’s bombing in downtown Nashville as “National Defense Airspace,” saying “deadly force” could be used as a last resort against any pilot appearing to pose a security threat.
An alert issued by the FAA warned pilots of the temporary flight restrictions for one nautical mile, which is approximately 1.15 miles, around the site of the explosion along Second Avenue North near Commerce Street.
Pilots not adhering to the restrictions “may be intercepted, detained and interviewed by law enforcement/security personnel,” according to the alert. It stated the FAA could impose civil penalties and suspension or revocation of airmen certificates, while the United States government could pursue criminal charges or “use deadly force” against the aircraft if it is determined that it “poses imminent security threat.”
The restrictions are effective Friday through 4:45 p.m. on Dec. 30.
So bomb explodes damage AT&T building and the server farm it houses, along with switches, trunk lines, and much more. AT&T telecomms go offline throughout the Nashville region. Phones down, wifi down. Nashville airport cancels flights because comms are affected by this outage.
No doubt the FBI will make sense of this all in the end, but what will the Americans think about it?
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