Telecom outages caused by Christmas bombing were ‘a wakeup call’

The bomb blew out windows as far away as Lower Broadway

Scott Augenbaum was one of the many area residents who lost cell phone and internet service in the wake of the Christmas Day bombing in downtown Nashville, an attack attributed by authorities to local man Anthony Warner.

“For the first time ever, I had no telephone service, no internet service, where God forbid something happened I couldn’t pick up the phone and call anybody,” Augenbaum says. “That’s a pretty scary thing for me. I am personally going to rethink my cell phone provider being the same as my internet provider.”