[26353] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Y2k silly season
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Mon Dec 27 15:51:27 1999
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 15:49:09 -0500 (EST)
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
To: Nathan Stratton <nathan@robotics.net>
Cc: Robert Cannon <rmcannon@mail.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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Speaking of telephone style networks. Has anyone noticed significant
degradation in their cell/pager coverage/performance over the last couple
of weeks?
Or maybe I'm imagining here.
Deepak Jain
AiNET
On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Nathan Stratton wrote:
>
> On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Robert Cannon wrote:
>
> > In regards to self fulfilling prophecies:
> >
> > The phone companies won't admit it but they are scared that at 1 second
> > past midnight, everyone will say to themselves, "Hmmm, lights are still on,
> > I wonder if the phones have stopped working?" and then within 1 minute,
> > millions of people will be lifting their phones off the hooks to check
> > dial-tone. You know what happens when that happens. :-)
>
> This is only a problem in some networks. Most of the time the actual
> dial tone does not congest the system. As someone who builds telephone
> networks I have to say that at least the 26 CLECs I work with will do
> fine. :) I am more worried about the people factor, when people freak out
> you can have problems.
>
> ><>
> Nathan Stratton Tricetel Consulting
> http://www.tricetel.net nathan@tricetel.net
> http://www.robotics.net nathan@robotics.net
>
> > -Hank
>
>
>
>
