[Outages-discussion] [EXTERNAL] [outages] Cellular Outage

[Mike Bolitho]

So much this. It's really annoying to see so much misinformation thrown
around because people take Downdetector as a source of truth.

- Mike Bolitho

On Mon, Jun 15, 2020, 2:24 PM Chapman, Brad (NBCUniversal) <
Brad.Chapman at nbcuni.com> wrote:

> Downdetector.com receives unfiltered, unreviewed submissions from the
> general public.
>
> Most of the data on this site has value, but there is also a lot of
> noise.
>
> When reporting an issue with the carriers, people have three choices: no
> signal, no calls, no data.
>
> Perhaps the reports on the other carriers is the result of customers
> calling a friend who has T-Mobile or Sprint, and the call did not go
> through.  They assume, erroneously, that it must be their own carrier's
> fault.
>
> -Brad
>
> On 6/15/20, 1:53 PM, "Outages on behalf of Jay R. Ashworth via Outages" <
> outages-bounces at outages.org on behalf of outages at outages.org> wrote:
>
>     Ok, apparently this *is* affecting data. :-)
>
>     This outage is affecting all 4 carriers, and in many states, according
> to
>     reports in a number of channels.  I have this from a Tampa local:
>
>     """
>     This is because of an update in the systems from the Sprint side to
> help
>     merge with T Mobile. That happened from 12am-6am EST and Sprint's
> systems
>     clashed with T Mobile's. I'm glad I have off today.
>     """
>
>     That's not going to esplain the other carriers' problems, of course,
> but...
>
>     Now that everyone knows that everyone knows, let's keep the main-list
> traffic
>     to either *actual ticket data*, or *actual clearance reports*; put
> everything
>     else on -discuss, please.
>
>     Cheers,
>     -- jr '</admin>' a
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