Cingular Wireless drops below 99.999

Wed Feb 14 12:41:55 UTC 2001

Well, just from an averaging standpoint, 99.999% is 1 minus 10^-5. 
So, you need to be up for 2 x 10^5 days; roughly 547.6 years, to
have it AVERAGE to 99.999% (for you). 

                                   Regards
                                   Marshall Eubanks

Alan Clegg wrote:
> 
> For the second day in a row, Cingular Wireless has no service in the 919,
> 910, and 704 areacodes.   The customer support specialist that I talked to
> this morning tells me that there are 48 sites down, and offered no
> information as to a time-to-repair.
> 
> Not being a statistics major, how long do you have to be up to fix 2 days
> back to 99.999%?
> 
> If you are trying to get in touch with me today, just don't bother.  ;-)
> 
> AlanC
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