Mailing List Archive: Power failure prompts outages for AT&T mobile phone users in Midwest

Power failure prompts outages for AT&T mobile phone users in Midwest

Dec 29, 2008, 6:47 AM

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Things seemed to be better around 8pm last night. While driving
to a relatives house, there were widespread areas without cellular
service on AT&T, and intermittent authentication failures for data
service. I was also unable to use WPS and GETS during that time from
my cellular telephone.

- Jared

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Power failure prompts outages for AT&T mobile phone users in Midwest [ In reply to ]

rdobbins at cisco

Dec 29, 2008, 7:15 AM

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On Dec 29, 2008, at 9:47 PM, Jared Mauch wrote:

> I was also unable to use WPS and GETS during that time from my
> cellular telephone.

It's probably a good idea to report that to NCS (and good thinking to
test it).

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Power failure prompts outages for AT&T mobile phone users in Midwest [ In reply to ]

jared at puck

Dec 29, 2008, 10:44 AM

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On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 09:16:34AM -0800, virendra rode wrote:
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> Roland Dobbins wrote:
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> > On Dec 29, 2008, at 9:47 PM, Jared Mauch wrote:
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> >> I was also unable to use WPS and GETS during that time from my
> >> cellular telephone.
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> >
> > It's probably a good idea to report that to NCS (and good thinking to
> > test it).
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> I thought FCC mandates provider(s) to report widely (~ 30,000 lines, I
> could be off here) affected services to FCC. Not sure if this has changed.

Most of these filings are flagged as confidnetal, so unless you work
at the carrier or the FCC you are unlikely to get information.

(outside of NSIE/NSTAC or GAO reports).

- Jared

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