[Outages-discussion] [EXTERNAL] Re: It wasn't just AT&T; every carrier was impacted. Why?

[Chapman, Brad (NBCUniversal)]

I'm sorry, Andy.  I must have emailed the outages-condescension listserv in error.  My apologies.

Does anyone else have an insight about why the outage affected every one?  Was AT&T's infrastructure really the source of the disruption as Andy says?  If so, does this highlight a potential problem of a private company having too much control over a critical piece of public infrastructure?

...or did the equipment upgrade at the 33 Thomas Street NSA listening outpost not go as planned?  :-D 

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> On Feb 22, 2024, at 8:53 AM, Andy Ringsmuth via Outages-discussion <outages-discussion at outages.org> wrote:
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>> On Feb 22, 2024, at 10:41 AM, Chapman, Brad (NBCUniversal) via Outages-discussion <outages-discussion at outages.org> wrote:
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>> Take a look at this scrolling screenshot the reports from Downdetector: every major carrier had some issue, with reports spiking around the same time.  
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>> Link: "https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://imgur.com/gallery/O3sm3qy__;!!PIZeeW5wscynRQ!rv688OpWswUnLFdugjEzHYHhrlS2Omb0viPzs_V1eR15-dTlj2DMBGFbdnd9ZCzHvQWXZ5eTLtMUv_BAOi6YvfTmRfRxltw$ "
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>> Someone commented on this post already about a "SIM Card database issue."
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>> Is that a credible explanation?  If so, how and why?
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>> -Brad
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> DownDetector is mostly garbage. It consists of 100% user-submitted reports.
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> But the tech illiterate media has no clue, so they take it as gospel and run with it.
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> If you are a T-Mobile customer and calling your girlfriend or boss or whomever and they are an AT&T customer, and it doesn’t go through, who do you blame? T-Mobile of course. Even though they were not at fault.
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> Also, how many of those MVNOs actually use AT&T’s infrastructure? Quite a few.
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> That’s what is going on with the other reports on DownDetector.
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> Again, repeat after me: DownDetector is not an official source. DownDetector is not an official source. DownDetector is not an official source.
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> -Andy
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