A communications disruption can mean only one thing
this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2024
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We had that in Canada, and not only was it ~1/3 of our providers (we usually only have 3), it also took out 911 in some areas, and payment terminals.
Someone botched some sort of update at the telecom company responsible for all those services...lmao
Same in Australia, massive outages when Optus broke their shit a second time
Outstanding reference
Thankyou
Trisolarens are a bit early
I haven't watched that movie in years and watched it the other day with my son.
Which movie?
It's from Star Wars Episode 1.
The cause is OBVIOUSLY that we Taxed them more! THIS is why we need to CUT their Taxes and Lower our Wages!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Updated Residents of the United States woke this morning to find widespread outages in cellular service, with AT&T bearing the brunt of a seemingly nationwide issue.
T-Mobile US and Verizon, the other two major cell network operators in America, have also seen widespread outage reports, though far fewer in number than AT&T.
With most of the reports pertaining to AT&T, and T-Mo and Verizon's denials of anything wrong on their end, the outage appears to be an AT&T issue, which the carrier has confirmed.
A map of AT&T outage reports shows several major metropolitan areas are affected at the time of publication, including Atlanta, Dallas and Houston.
Many of those towers were purchased from AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile, making even the largest US cellular providers look more like the small virtual network operators their hardware has classically supported.
Cloudflare has a graph showing a significant drop off of IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity for AT&T, leading some network administrators to speculate it's a BGP issue.
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I did hear that it was caused by a solar flare, but I haven't actually checked that. If it wasn't a solar flare, I wonder if it could've been a case of cyber warfare?
Unlikely. The most likely cause is that it was caused by a misconfiguration, like someone typo'd a line in a file somewhere, which then propagated outwards when everything downstream got the faulty update.
If it was a solar flare,or cyberwarfare, it would be more indiscriminate, rather than targeting a specific vendor's hardware or a single network.
Edit: Sure enough, it was a botched update.
It's probably the terrorist and now thw Gov need you to install a very normal app to be able to use your phone /s