London incidents

Tue Jul 12 15:02:52 UTC 2005

An entity claiming to be Joseph S D Yao (jsdy at center.osis.gov) wrote:
: 
: On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 08:49:47PM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote:
: > On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Hannigan, Martin wrote:
: > > > All this while I was trying unsuccessfully to use my
: > > > mobile to ring the office.
: > >
: > > Some cell relays were temporarily shut to prevent a remote
: > > detonation of additional explosives. Cellular remotes seem
: > > to be a favorite of Al Qaeda and others.
: > 
: > UK Government officials deny they shutdown any cell phone service.
: 
: My personal experience, with the last few disasters, is that cell 'phone
: services tend to shut themselves down in the affected areas.  Sort of a
: natural feedback type of thing.  ;-]
: 

I heard it was a feature called Catastrophic Response Adaptive SHutdown.

Mark

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