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

[Aloiamoa Anesi]

More like:

"I don't know what they do. Let's just turn them off and see who complains."


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Ala'alatoa Aloiamoa Anesi, Jr.
Systems Engineer
Blue Sky Communications
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Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799
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On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 5:58 AM, Grant Ridder <shortdudey123 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Sounds like someone didn't analyze what the servers actually did.
>
> -Grant
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> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> "Unintended consequences"
>>
>> Tony Patti
>> CIO
>> S. Walter Packaging
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