It wasn't Verizon Wireless that dropped the calls, it was Verizon Landline that lost 14 CAMA trunks used by ALL wireless carriers. Also, the calls weren't dropped, they got busy signals. Bad, but different and comparing Verizon Wireless to AT&T Wireless are irrelevant to this story.

Before I worked here (but they published the story in the customer newsletter, and I was a customer at the time), my employer was shipping one of our phone switches and the truck got stuck at a train crossing. The driver got out to look for help, and a freight train slammed right into the truck. The truck was demolished, and our switch, carefully packed in it's crate, was carried about 150 yards down the tracks. There were some cracks in the shipping crate, and the door wouldn't quite close back up, but we had it shipped back to our manufacturing facility to see if there were any parts that could be salvaged. We brought it into one of the labs, powered it up, and it worked perfectly (although it had a distinct tilt from the twisted frame).