[17009] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SkyTel 2Way pagers DOWN all US
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Oberman)
Tue May 19 23:51:46 1998
To: Mark Allan Rizzo <mrizzo@origin.ea.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 19 May 1998 22:11:11 CDT."
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Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 20:46:07 -0700
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
> Just wanted to inform anyone that relies on this for system notifications
> etc. Skytel lost a satellite feed and all of their 2-Way pagers are down.
> I called them and they told me that it had been down since 5:00pm CST and
> they hoped to have it back 'soon'.
There was a satellite failure that has taken out most paging in the US. My
AirTouch is also out. I assume that the paging comanies are scrambling to get
other access.
Keep close to the phone and let your NOCs know. :-(
--
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
