Older phones on 2G or 3G networks could be affected and emergency alert devices used by the elderly and vulnerable. Their ability to call 9-1-1 could stop by year's end.
The twentieth anniversary of probably the worst event of my lifetime is coming up in about two weeks, and I'm guessing I'm not the only one reflecting on it. The terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, as horrible and scary as they were, did do one good thing in the immediate aftermath. For a few, much too short, weeks, those tragic events caused us as a nation to come together.