AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile being sued by Maui for communication failures during wildfires

The lawsuit blames major cellular carriers for failure to report outages to emergency agencies. Had emergency responders known about widespread cellphone outages during the height of last summer’s deadly Maui wildfires, they would have used other methods to warn about the disaster, county officials said in a lawsuit.Alerts the county sent to cellphones warning people to immediately evacuate were never received, unbeknownst to the county, the lawsuit said.Maui officials failed to...