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UK: Phone networks down: EE, BT, Three, Vodafone, O2 not working in mass outage

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Re: UK: Phone networks down: EE, BT, Three, Vodafone, O2 not working in mass outage

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Post by teeray »

jon-wood wrote: post #2

I see we’re still using Down Detector as a source for stories, which may as well be called People Are Talking on Twitter Detector. It doesn’t do anything smart, it’s just looking for keywords on social media, sometimes by coincidence this indicates an actual outage.

Down Detector will be useful as long as marketing departments control official status pages.

Re: UK: Phone networks down: EE, BT, Three, Vodafone, O2 not working in mass outage

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Post by 369548684892826 »

18172828286177 wrote: post #17

It’s weird to me that the providers aren’t communicating to customers about this. What if you were waiting for a call from a doctor, or similar?

They've probably let everyone know by SMS, we'll get the message when everything starts working again

Re: UK: Phone networks down: EE, BT, Three, Vodafone, O2 not working in mass outage

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Post by pmontra »

mmsc wrote: post #13

China watching with open eyes. This will happen the day that they try to take Taiwan, worldwide, in my opinion.

Only if they absolutely need it. Nobody would spoil an asset like that. Maybe they would turn off mobile in Taiwan if they control their network. I didn't check which technology provider they use.

Re: UK: Phone networks down: EE, BT, Three, Vodafone, O2 not working in mass outage

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Post by whycome »

Scoundreller wrote: post #12
yabones wrote: post #4

I wonder if it will be the same cause as the big Rogers outage in '22, a good old fashioned BGP botch. https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/rogers-commun... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Rogers_Communications_out...

Diff with Rogers is that they took out their entire network: cellular, home/biz internet, home phone, corporate circuits (including MPLS links), most cable TV, a bunch of their broadcast radio (AM/FM) network just dead dead dead. Well, their towers were sorta up (as they couldn’t remotely turn them off since the network was down), so if you had a Rogers SIM, a call to 9-1-1 wouldn’t failover to other networks because…

I know one outcome of it was to ensure that they were equipped with SIMs for Competitor networks just in case

Re: UK: Phone networks down: EE, BT, Three, Vodafone, O2 not working in mass outage

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Post by 1970-01-01 »

jon-wood wrote: post #2

I see we’re still using Down Detector as a source for stories, which may as well be called People Are Talking on Twitter Detector. It doesn’t do anything smart, it’s just looking for keywords on social media, sometimes by coincidence this indicates an actual outage.

If it's stupid but it works it isn't stupid. Many S3 outages are on Down Detector minutes before the AWS status page reacts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41770111

Re: UK: Phone networks down: EE, BT, Three, Vodafone, O2 not working in mass outage

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Post by ElijahLynn »

jon-wood wrote: post #2

I see we’re still using Down Detector as a source for stories, which may as well be called People Are Talking on Twitter Detector. It doesn’t do anything smart, it’s just looking for keywords on social media, sometimes by coincidence this indicates an actual outage.

People submit reports through down detector.
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