<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>TMC isn't going to make a carrier mad by spotlighting otherwise unnoticed issues. They're basically as far from Consumer Reports as you can get - almost any article you see on their sites are either industry rumors that someone wants to leak through a third party, or literally sponsored or written by industry players.</div><div><br></div><div>The independent articles that aren't the above are generally about the industry as a whole, or are careful to remember how their bread is buttered.</div><div><br></div><div>My 2c of course.</div><br><div><div>On Apr 19, 2013, at 5:06 PM, PE <<a href="mailto:peeip989@gmail.com">peeip989@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Understood. I'm not saying this is WSJ stuff but thought at least TMC or another trade rag would pick up on it.</div><div><br></div><div><br><br>On Apr 19, 2013, at 4:45 PM, Christian Pena <<a href="mailto:christianpen@gmail.com">christianpen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Fact of the matter is that service providers, more so on the scale of Verizon, have 'catastrophic' outages all the time. I've seen a local fiber cut called 'catastrophic'...<div><br></div>
<div>A DDoS attack targeting DNS that impacted calls for a few hours to a subset of their customers is not really front page news...</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 2:40 PM, David Thompson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dthompson@esi-estech.com" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:dthompson@esi-estech.com">dthompson@esi-estech.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Because Verizon probably pays a PR firm to scrub any negative reviews or information from searches. Not sure of how it’s accomplished exactly but I heard there is a firm out there that offers money to people to remove negative feedback/information. Eg. You get a call from someone offering you 500 bucks to delete your post.</span></p>
<div class="im"><div><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">David Thompson <br>
Network Services Support Technician <br>(O) <a href="tel:858.357.8794" value="+18583578794" target="_blank">858.357.8794</a> <br>(F) <a href="tel:858-225-1882" value="+18582251882" target="_blank">858-225-1882</a> <br>(E) <a href="mailto:dthompson@esi-estech.com" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:dthompson@esi-estech.com">dthompson@esi-estech.com</a><br>
(W) <a href="http://www.esi-estech.com/" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.esi-estech.com/">www.esi-estech.com</a></span></p><div><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> PE [mailto:<a href="mailto:peeip989@gmail.com" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:peeip989@gmail.com">peeip989@gmail.com</a>] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, April 19, 2013 11:10 AM<br><b>To:</b> David Thompson<br><b>Cc:</b> Jared Geiger; VoiceOps<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [VoiceOps] Verizon SIP issues</span></p><div><div class="h5"><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>
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How can it be that there was such a far reaching outage (in our rep's words, "catastrophic") yet I cannot find any news whatsoever about it and there was very, very little on the likes of Twitter. Anyone know of any news outlets that said anything?</p>
</div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 12pt; "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 5:40 PM, David Thompson <<a href="mailto:dthompson@esi-estech.com" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:dthompson@esi-estech.com">dthompson@esi-estech.com</a>> wrote:</p>
<div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Yes I can definitely confirm that this morning Verizon was having problems completing SIP calls.</span></p><div><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">David Thompson <br>
Network Services Support Technician <br>(O) <a href="tel:858.357.8794" target="_blank">858.357.8794</a> <br>(F) <a href="tel:858-225-1882" target="_blank">858-225-1882</a> <br>(E) <a href="mailto:dthompson@esi-estech.com" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:dthompson@esi-estech.com">dthompson@esi-estech.com</a><br>
(W) <a href="http://www.esi-estech.com/" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.esi-estech.com/">www.esi-estech.com</a></span></p><div><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> VoiceOps [mailto:<a href="mailto:voiceops-bounces@voiceops.org" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:voiceops-bounces@voiceops.org">voiceops-bounces@voiceops.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jared Geiger<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 18, 2013 10:52 AM<br><b>To:</b> VoiceOps<br><b>Subject:</b> [VoiceOps] Verizon SIP issues</span></p><div><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Did anyone else have problems with inbound Verizon SIP numbers for about the past 30 minutes? Outbound calls were working fine.</p>
<div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">~Jared</p></div></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><br>_______________________________________________<br>VoiceOps mailing list<br>
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