[outages] Sprint: "We don't need those servers over there, turn them off"

[Grant Ridder]

Sounds like someone didn't analyze what the servers actually did.

-Grant

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Tony Patti <tony at swalter.com> wrote:

> Sprint is having a cell phone outage affecting the entire east coast,
> any phone which was EVER on the Nextel network, even if subsequently moved
> to Sprint years ago, calls not going through.
> ETTR 1pm CST.
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> Apparently Sprint shut down the servers which controlled the Nextel
> network,
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> after shutting down the Nextel network itself two weeks ago,
> not taking into consideration that turning off those Nextel servers would
> break the ability to use many Sprint phones.
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> "Unintended consequences"
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> Tony Patti
> CIO
> S. Walter Packaging
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