[17063] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SkyTel 2Way pagers DOWN all US
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Rishaw)
Wed May 20 13:04:17 1998
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980520094857.1260H-100000@iago.nac.net> from Al Reuben at "May 20, 98 09:49:22 am"
To: alex@nac.net (Al Reuben)
Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 11:55:01 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: mrizzo@origin.ea.com, nanog@merit.edu
From: jamie@dilbert.ais.net (James Rishaw)
Reply-To: jamie@ais.net
This is totally one for CIWARS and RISKS to go nuts on.
Paging service nationally going nuts? Doctors, emegency things, on-call
techs, all out of range because one satellite was taken out?
Al Reuben wrote:
>
> All Sprint pagers, as well as Pagenet is down also; due to a Satelite
> goign AWOL.
>
> They are repositioning another.
>
I wonder how they page their on-call techs when the paging systems themselves
go out. :)
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