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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 xp84 »

dlenski wrote: post #40
whycome wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

You're saying that Rogers personnel now have non-Rogers SIM cards?

I mean, incredibly critical personnel probably should be! There may only be a few dozen such people, but I wouldn't want the added chaos caused in the event of a Rogers outage if I couldn't get in touch with the key decision makers and most critical operations engineers because of the very outage they're meant to fix. And in the e-sim era that is hopefully very cheap and without any real downsides.

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

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Post by beagle3 »

codedokode wrote: post #67
ivan_gammel wrote: post #58

Reminds me of recent outages in Russia due to buggy rollouts of Great Russian Firewall aka Sovereign Internet. Were there any state-level infrastructure updates planned recently?

We also have mobile internet disabled/throttled sometimes when there are drone attacks or large international forums. Weak-minded people with Internet dependency like to complain about this online as if their online game is more important than an international forum.

Serious question: who gets to decide that some international forum is more important than residents’ use? - be it games, video calls, or whatever else.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

beagle3 wrote: post #73
codedokode wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We also have mobile internet disabled/throttled sometimes when there are drone attacks or large international forums. Weak-minded people with Internet dependency like to complain about this online as if their online game is more important than an international forum.

Serious question: who gets to decide that some international forum is more important than residents’ use? - be it games, video calls, or whatever else.

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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 andy_ppp »

Honestly I know this sound snarky but it’s 100% true - Three has become so unbelievably bad in East London lately I’d struggle to know if it was affected by this outage or if it was business as usual for them. I could go on about how broken their billing and app and site were but meh… need to change provider.

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

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Post by codedokode »

beagle3 wrote: post #73
codedokode wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We also have mobile internet disabled/throttled sometimes when there are drone attacks or large international forums. Weak-minded people with Internet dependency like to complain about this online as if their online game is more important than an international forum.

Serious question: who gets to decide that some international forum is more important than residents’ use? - be it games, video calls, or whatever else.

The government has an authority to decide, according to the laws? By the way they also often block roads for security of important foreign guests and cause lot of traffic jams.
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