[17048] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SkyTel 2Way pagers DOWN all US
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Wed May 20 11:22:03 1998
Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 10:44:40 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199805200346.UAA16944@ptavv.es.net>; from Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> on Tue, May 19, 1998 at 08:46:07PM -0700
On Tue, May 19, 1998 at 08:46:07PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > 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.
Interestingly enough, my Tampa PageNet pager died around the same time,
was down at 0300, and was working at 0830. The reason it's interesting
is that I'm _not_ a nationwide customer. Their _local_ RF was down.
Go figure.
CHeers,
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