An AT&T problem allegedly caused outage on Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/an-att-problem-allegedly-caused-outage-on-verizon-sprint-and-t-mobile/ The four major wireless carriers in the US had an outage lasting about five hours in several states last night, and a report from Re/code says it was all caused by a hardware problem in AT&T's network. Although AT&T, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile US, and Sprint each operate their own cell towers, in the states where the outage occurred they apparently all acquire backhaul from AT&T's network. Re/code reported that "several telecommunications industry sources" confirmed that AT&T's network caused the outage for all four carriers in parts of Tennessee, Alabama, Kentucky and Indiana. (Another report said Georgia was affected as well.) - - - Thank you for using AT&T! --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
