End of year freeze (Re: Y2k silly season)
Larry Snyder
larrys at lexis-nexis.com
Tue Dec 28 01:51:37 UTC 1999
Hmmm...
Will it get worse before it gets better? How many people got phones
[cell|pcs] or pagers as gifts this year? And given that this is their
first week of ownership will be beating them half silly?
Just my .02
-ls-
"Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer at mhsc.com> wrote:
>
> Having similar problems on the SprintPCS network, in the SF Bay Area.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> > Deepak Jain
> > Sent: Monday, December 27, 1999 2:33 PM
>
> > On 27 Dec 1999, Sean Donelan wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > On Mon, 27 December 1999, Deepak Jain wrote:
> > > > Speaking of telephone style networks. Has anyone noticed
> > significant
> > > > degradation in their cell/pager coverage/performance over
> > the last couple
> > > > of weeks?
> > >
> > > What type of degradation? I haven't noticed any larger
> > than normal problems.
> > >
> >
> > Poor signal strength, unusually high number of fast busies
> > when trying to
> > reach local and long distance land lines. High delays in call
> > processing,
> > Higher than normal numbers of automatic redials on call-initiation.
> >
> > This in areas like Tyson's Corner, South Beach, New York City, and
> > surrounding areas.
> >
> > >From a pager point of view, (Skytel is the easiest to pick
> > on). Areas
> > that should be 100% full service are showing up in sections as Basic
> > service. Basic service areas are not delivering 100% of the
> > pages until
> > Full service is returned, etc. Same regions. Walking through
> > normal Basic
> > service areas are showing up as Storing messages (no tower
> > connectivity).
> > Essentially the same areas as above.
> >
> > > Many carriers have a end of year freeze on network changes.
> > Although the
> > > freeze has been planned for a long time, I notice it didn't
> > stop sales
> > > people from promising due dates during the freeze period.
> > If you are
> > > expecting to see new service turned up on Dec 31, I don't think your
> > > odds are very good.
> > >
> > > Some of my friends at other carriers told me they had a big
> > push to get a
> > > lot of changes into their networks before December 23 to
> > beat the freeze.
> > >
> >
> > Maybe, I have been noticing it since about a week before Thanksgiving.
> >
> > Deepak Jain
> > AiNET
> >
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