Major Problems with Cingular Network

Wabin writes "It looks like the Cingular GSM network is having serious trouble. My phone stopped working today completely, though my wife's was still able to make outgoing calls. Talking to tech support, they claimed some kind of massive failure across the country starting around 4PM yesterday and possibly a virus attack. Howard Forums is all abuzz, but there really doesn't seem to be any hard info. Glad I haven't totally given up the land line yet... redundancy is good."

Comments

Well, I must say...

[cliffy2000]

It's a shock... I mean, the fact that the quality's bad. Really, a company that spends a great deal of money on advertising producing a poor product?

Blame it on viruses

[Felinoid]

You know it's probably not got anything to do with viruses or worms.
It's more likely human error.

You know this is why everyone down the chain needs to start taking responsability.

Is Microsoft responsable? Yes (not legally I know)
But so is the Syadmin and the utility that hired him.
Quite frankly the utility should also be held responsable for agreeing to hold Microsoft blameless with out anyway of fixing it themselfs.
(I had to add the qualifier becouse with Linux you CAN fix it... With Windows your stuck at Microsofts whims)

But you know Microsoft should be held blameless for the worms now becouse Microsoft has offered patches.

Also they could just blame viruses and worms when what really happend is they did something really stupid and won't admit it.

Baby bell employees ripping digital network hardware out becouse the trainning they have is obsolte and similare stunts...

ISPs were suing baby bells for refusing to bring in more phone lines or knocking lines out after install or ripping out T1-OCR3 hardware...

Now we have power companys who could be hit and a celulare company who is at the very least using it as an excuse for a major outage.

I'm gona start asking cell companys if they run Windows before I sign up. I don't care if they do have a good anti-virus/worm/security policy and armor systems 100% there is still the opratunity to blame human error on malware and not take responsability for major outages.