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Re: [inquiry] Internet/cell in Tehran down?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey Lyon)
Sat Jun 13 22:40:44 2009
In-Reply-To: <4A345C83.9070209@internode.com.au>
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:40:24 -0400
From: Jeffrey Lyon <jeffrey.lyon@blacklotus.net>
To: Matthew Moyle-Croft <mmc@internode.com.au>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/jun/13/cell-phone-service-down-after-d=
isputed-iran-vote/
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Matthew
Moyle-Croft<mmc@internode.com.au> wrote:
> Maybe there's just a lot of congestion and it's not actually down?
>
> Happens here (Australia) on some mobile networks at large events - just n=
ot
> enough bandwidth to go around and so you can't make calls and sms are
> delayed. =A0Given that there's a lot of protests etc and a lot of people =
out
> and about in Tehran it could be similar.
>
> MMC
>
> Eric Brunner-Williams wrote:
>>
>> I exchanged notes with someone in Tehran shortly after 6am EDT this
>> morning. NPR is at least partially incorrect.
>>
>> Steve Pirk wrote:
>>>
>>> Npr (All things considered) is reporting that cell phones and Internet
>>> access in at least Teheran if not all of Iran is down. Reporters are
>>> unable to connect out.
>>>
>>> Anyone hear of anything?
>>> -steve
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
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