[34607] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cingular Wireless drops below 99.999
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Wed Feb 14 07:43:32 2001
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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 07:41:55 -0500
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@21rst-century.com>
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Well, just from an averaging standpoint, 99.999% is 1 minus 10^-5.
So, you need to be up for 2 x 10^5 days; roughly 547.6 years, to
have it AVERAGE to 99.999% (for you).
Regards
Marshall Eubanks
Alan Clegg wrote:
>
> For the second day in a row, Cingular Wireless has no service in the 919,
> 910, and 704 areacodes. The customer support specialist that I talked to
> this morning tells me that there are 48 sites down, and offered no
> information as to a time-to-repair.
>
> Not being a statistics major, how long do you have to be up to fix 2 days
> back to 99.999%?
>
> If you are trying to get in touch with me today, just don't bother. ;-)
>
> AlanC
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