<div dir="ltr"><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">I don't think that's related to the cell-carrier issue yesterday, but rather more likely related to the Verizon & Optimum outage, and their land-line service. Here is the tweet that Northwell Health had sent out (and is mentioned in the article): </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://twitter.com/NWHospital/status/1170169600144793600?s=20">https://twitter.com/NWHospital/status/1170169600144793600?s=20</a></span></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">Also, the blurb right under the title of the article says: "</span>The hospitals, all in the New York City region, said there was no danger to patients and advised relatives to use cellphones instead."</font></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 4:19 AM Stephen Wilcox via Outages <<a href="mailto:outages@outages.org">outages@outages.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Paywall.. is there an excerpt or alt description - was it single backhaul?</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 7 Sep 2019 at 16:13, Joly MacFie via Outages <<a href="mailto:outages@outages.org" target="_blank">outages@outages.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small">NY Times story - Phone Service Problems Leave More Than a Dozen Hospitals Unable to Take Calls</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/07/nyregion/phone-outage-new-york-hospitals.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/07/nyregion/phone-outage-new-york-hospitals.html</a> <br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 7:31 PM Stephens, Jamie A via Outages <<a href="mailto:outages@outages.org" target="_blank">outages@outages.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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On Sep 6, 2019, at 7:28 PM, Jay R. Ashworth via Outages <<a href="mailto:outages@outages.org" target="_blank">outages@outages.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>What's going on is that T-Mobile, Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and US Cellular</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>*ALL* have big outages in the NE corridor; all big report spikes in the</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>Not sure what's up, but let's limit responses on this thread to "I actually</span><br>
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<span>And those answers, when we get them, will be doubly interesting: all 6 </span>
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<span>carriers' trouble report counts are trending down just as fast as they</span><br>
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<span>That can't really be an accident...</span><br>
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<span>Cheers,</span><br>
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