[26356] in North American Network Operators' Group
End of year freeze (Re: Y2k silly season)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Mon Dec 27 17:28:12 1999
Date: 27 Dec 1999 14:25:54 -0800
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From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
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On Mon, 27 December 1999, Deepak Jain wrote:
> Speaking of telephone style networks. Has anyone noticed significant
> degradation in their cell/pager coverage/performance over the last couple
> of weeks?
What type of degradation? I haven't noticed any larger than normal problems.
Many carriers have a end of year freeze on network changes. Although the
freeze has been planned for a long time, I notice it didn't stop sales
people from promising due dates during the freeze period. If you are
expecting to see new service turned up on Dec 31, I don't think your
odds are very good.
Some of my friends at other carriers told me they had a big push to get a
lot of changes into their networks before December 23 to beat the freeze.
