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Re: MCI outage? (Telephone too, problems reaching PacBell)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Schwartz)
Wed Oct 24 21:40:53 2001

From: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
To: <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 18:40:17 -0700
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On Wed, 24 Oct 2001 19:16:02 -0400 (EDT), Sean Donelan wrote:

>Worldcom (MCI) lost its lines to the Spacepark CO.  Spacepark is=
 one of
>those 100 "important" COs.  So connectivity between regional=
 Worldcom
>customers and the rest of the country may be impacted, but the=
 rest of the
>country/globe is unaffected.

=09You do seem to know the right people to speak to. Everyone I=
 spoke to either 
said, "we did publish the wrong 800 number on some of our bills,=
 is that what 
you're asking about? Or is that corrections facility that can't=
 make collect 
calls? I know all about that?" or "Yeah, there's a problem=
 somewhere in 
California, but I don't know what, where, or whether there's a=
 ticket 
number".

=09Anyway, our affected circuits (fortunately for us, just 2 T1s=
 and some voice 
lines) are back.

=09DS



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