[VoiceOps] News about surges in Traffic with AT&T and Verizon

[Darren]

Thanks for this!

We also got confirmation finally from our upstream providers that indeed they were running out of channels on some of their carrier interconnects. They've assured us they've boosted capacity as well.

Things are getting weird around here...


On 3/20/20, 11:26 AM, "VoiceOps on behalf of Mary Lou Carey" <voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org on behalf of marylou at backuptelecom.com> wrote:

    I get e-mails from USTelecom Daily Lead and two of their articles were 
    very interesting in light of the conversation about calls blocking 
    yesterday. I thought you all might be interested because it explains a 
    whole lot!
    
    MARY LOU CAREY
    BackUP Telecom Consulting
    Office: 615-791-9969
    Cell: 615-796-1111
    
    -------- Original Message --------
    Subject: Vestberg: Verizon prepared for surge in network traffic
    Date: 2020-03-20 12:58 PM
     From: "USTelecom dailyLead" <ustelecom at dailylead.com>
    To: marylou at backuptelecom.com
    
    
    
      		News of the Day
    
      AT&T boosts capacity in spectrum-sharing deal [6]
    DISH Network is loaning AT&T 20 MHz of spectrum in the AWS-4 band, as
    well as its entire supply of 700 MHz airwaves, for two months. This is
    the third spectrum-sharing arrangement that the satellite provider has
    made since Sunday as telecoms prepare for extra traffic from people
    working at home. FULL STORY: FierceWireless [6] (3/19),  PC Magazine [7]
    (3/19),  The Verge [8] (3/19)
      [9]  [10]  [11]  [12]
    
    
      		Business & Industry Watch
    
      Vestberg: Verizon prepared for surge in network traffic [16]
    Verizon executives say their fiber and cellular-based networks have held
    up as web traffic has steadily grown in recent days as more people work
    from home and stay indoors. "We're always built for being prepared for
    different types of changes in the network," CEO Hans Vestberg told CNBC.
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