This is truly strange. I'm thankful that nobody was killed. But what on earth is going on?
ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville
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#32The title is misspelled. It's “AT&T”, not “ATT”.
Also, that's not the title of the article, though it is factually correct.
Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville
#33Reportedly, there was a visible countdown timer on the vehicle that exploded, and an audible warning played for 15-20 minutes prior to the blast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nygTJeu9fU
Local TV News managed to interview a neighbor from directly across the street where the explosion occurred[1].
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#34This is truly strange. I'm thankful that nobody was killed. But what on earth is going on?
There are reports of human remains at the scene.
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#35The building (185 2nd Ave N) the RV exploded in front of appears to host a lot of equipment: https://www.telcodata.us/search-switches-by-zip-code?zip=372...
I've been wondering if it's one of the 5G weirdos who got tired of burning down antennas on the street and started thinking bigger.
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#36This article doesn't make this so explicit, but ATT infrastructure appears to be the intentional target of the bombing. You can see the building in the helicopter shot at the top of the NYTimes article on the story: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/25/us/nashville-explosion.ht... Obviously a telecommunications/switch hub, with it being a large windowless building in a downtown core. The other thing that's particularly…
What is the source for AT&T being the intentional target? Maybe it just happened to be the building in the background?
Maybe the real targets were the pigeons on the sidewalk?
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#37This is truly strange. I'm thankful that nobody was killed. But what on earth is going on?
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#38additional angle to consider under tinfoil:
building ran telecommunications and the telecom outage affected the nashville airport, altering some flights
https://twitter.com/Fly_Nashville/status/1342566428386488324...
not to make a mountain out of a molehill, but thought experiments are good exercise.
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#39First thing I thought of was all the disgruntled door dashers with AT&T as their provider. For those who don't know, dashers who use use AT&T have been impacted by some kind of network issue for the last month or so. It makes it difficult for them to use the doordash driver app and neither DD nor AT&T have a fix at the moment.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was the first person in my town to get residential ISDN back in ~1996. I was a fledgling admin on the network team and work paid for it. It took me almost three months to help the local telco get it up and running, but we could never get 64kbps on the data channels because of some weird issue with the switch. (Still beat the hell out of dial up) I think your comment is the first time I’ve read or thought about the…
Tragically there was nothing simple about ISDN. A customer would have to know their switch type at the CO and there were a number of other things that could break it. At least with a T1/DS1 you only had to worry about SF/ESF, B8ZS/AMI and number of channels.
Interesting. In many European countries ISDN was widespread in the mid-to-late ‘90s. There were millions of customers in Germany alone, I think.
It was slow compared to the DSL connections that replaced it, but I don’t remember hearing too many negative things about ISDN reliability.
(I bet the only real legacy of this technology is the album by the Future Sound of London which is named ISDN.)