AT&T’s EDGE network is down in the midwest U.S. today. They seem to think that it might be back today, or might take until February 5.
In the old days, back when there was just The Phone Company, they maintained better than five nine’s reliability. Nothing would cause a widespread outage, and local outages didn’t last for more than a few hours except in natural disasters. Post-divestiture, they’ve neglected to maintain and expand the infrastructure in such a way as to avoid single points of failure that can take down large service areas for extended periods.
Oh well. At least when they’re not delivering the world, they’re not delivering it to the NSA.
Sorry, your world won’t be delivered today
AT&T’s EDGE network is down in the midwest U.S. today. They seem to think that it might be back today, or might take until February 5.
In the old days, back when there was just The Phone Company, they maintained better than five nine’s reliability. Nothing would cause a widespread outage, and local outages didn’t last for more than a few hours except in natural disasters. Post-divestiture, they’ve neglected to maintain and expand the infrastructure in such a way as to avoid single points of failure that can take down large service areas for extended periods.
Oh well. At least when they’re not delivering the world, they’re not delivering it to the NSA.