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

[John Neiberger]

I still find it incredibly coincidental that right before the outage began
I received an email from Google Fi, my old provider, saying they're sorry
to see me go, as if I had just left. I actually left a year ago. Then when
the outage really took off, my personal cell wasn't even talking to the TMO
towers, but my work cell--which has been TMO for years--seemed to never
lose connectivity to the towers. It was almost as if this were an issue
with the customer database getting hosed somehow, not just a network issue,
per se. It may have just been a coincidence, but the timing was pretty
strange.

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 9:56 AM Jason Kuehl <jason.w.kuehl at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have so many theories. I can't wait to see RCA on this.
>
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 11:34 AM Frank Bulk <frnkblk at iname.com> wrote:
>
>> I read a news report about Level3 backhaul, too, but CenturyLink refuted
>> it.
>>
>>
>>
>> Here are the two most page I’ve read so far:
>>
>> “This is an IP traffic related issue that has created significant
>> capacity issues in the network core throughout the day.”
>>
>> https://www.t-mobile.com/news/update-for-customers-on-network-issues
>>
>>
>>
>> “The network outage was related to the company’s 5G rollout, Deutsche
>> Telekom AG Chief Executive Officer Tim Hoettges said in a press conference.”
>>
>>
>> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-15/t-mobile-working-to-recover-from-major-service-disruption?srnd=premium
>>
>>
>>
>> Frank
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Outages-discussion <outages-discussion-bounces at outages.org> *On
>> Behalf Of *Nate
>> *Sent:* Monday, June 15, 2020 5:20 PM
>> *To:* Chapman, Brad (NBCUniversal) <Brad.Chapman at nbcuni.com>
>> *Cc:* OUTAGES Discussion List <Outages-discussion at outages.org>
>> *Subject:* Re: [Outages-discussion] [EXTERNAL] [outages] Cellular Outage
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm hearing chatter it might be Level3 Back-haul provider is having
>> issues. Can anyone confirm this? Or deny this?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 15, 2020, 3:24 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,
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