Comcast outage cripples City Council’s day
Memphis City Council chairman JB Smiley Jr. presides over a Jan. 9 council meeting. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
The outage shortened the council’s meeting and hindered its online capabilities, including its Granicus and YouTube feeds and the body’s electronic voting system. Most of the council’s business was delayed to the April 9 meeting.
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