[17040] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SkyTel 2Way pagers DOWN all US
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (TTSG)
Wed May 20 10:43:51 1998
From: TTSG <ttsg@ttsg.com>
To: karl@mcs.net (Karl Denninger)
Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 10:07:30 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: dean@av8.com, ttsg@ttsg.com, bnite@tremere.ios.com, mrizzo@origin.ea.com,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19980520082933.38553@mcs.net> from "Karl Denninger" at May 20, 98 08:29:33 am
>
> On Wed, May 20, 1998 at 01:54:32AM -0400, Dean Anderson wrote:
> > >other .5% problem), I told her if I was ever kidnapped to call Skytel as
> > >they had to be able to track where I was. The woman on the phone "would
> > >neither confirm nor deny" that possibility. She referenced a privacy
> > >issue and didn't want to say more.
> >
> > Interesting. Of course, we know from the OJ saga that Cellphones can be
> > located well enough to find a moving vehicle...
> >
> > --Dean
>
> Pagemart service is STILL down as of this time (5-20-98 8:30 AM CDT); I am
> getting neither my normal "news and weather" broadcasts or directed pages.
>
Still no SkyTel. Areas where they use land based communication to
the towers are fine, but the areas where they use the "Sky" part are still
down of course. I asked a Ham Radio friend of mine to look into it, and he'll
be posting on his web site whatever he learns:
http://digital.net/~cheshire
Tuc/TTSG
