mobile.att.net dead

Wed Apr 30 02:22:16 UTC 2003

>If you are relying on AT&T's paging/SMS service (for your phones) to be
>alerted to (most certainly undesirable) operational events (or if you are
>replying to them via the 2-way SMS service), this is a good time for a
>backup pager: [...]
>Both are dead like a door stop, and we can speculate on wether they
>are located in the same physical building, on the same routed interface,
>and the same physical switch, which failed the single processor
>blade driving both of them.

POI: AT&T wireless service response to wireless phone trouble
report about 30 min ago was that AT&T wireless and AT&T long
distance stopped communicating a little while ago for reasons
not clearly known to AT&T wireless.

Facility somewhere go boom?  Cable cut?

-george william herbert
gherbert at retro.com