Outage Knocks Out All Major Phone Providers On the East Coast (dailydot.com)

Every major phone carrier experience outages on United States' east coast this morning at around 11am local time. The outage lasted for about 45 minutes. DownDetector, which monitors outages of services, confirmed AT&T, Verizon, Charter Spectrum, Comcast, Sprint, Time Warner Cable, US Cellular, and Vonage among others were affected. From a DailyDot report: T-Mobile CEO John Legere tweeted about the incident, pointing to issues with Level 3, a major internet backbone. Other tech firms quickly pointed to a Level 3 outage as well. No specific information has been released on potential causes of the outage or consequences that may result from it. Business VoIP providers (Resource: https://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/VOIP+Service+Providers+Business) were unaffected as they run over internet connections.

Comments

they should really plan for this

[Anonymous Coward]

The really should think of some sort of system of interconnected networks that is so redundant and widespread that even a nuclear war couldn't take out!

Re:they should really plan for this

[xxxJonBoyxxx]

>> think of some sort of system of interconnected networks

Talk to Al Gore. I heard he has an idea.

W9ABC this is K6XYZ

[argee]

W9ABC this is K6XYZ, over ....
(no answer)
W9ABC this is K6XYZ, over
no answer
Dial up on cell.
"Hey, Harry, turn on your damned radio!"
"OK"
W9ABC, this is K6XYZ, over
K6XYZ this is W6ABC, I hear you 5 by 5 now!

Lesson: This is a fine example of communications redundancy ... errrr ...

Re:I didn't notice any outage.

[LynnwoodRooster]

Sure! There's an app for that!