[82266] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: London incidents
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil J. McRae)
Mon Jul 11 07:13:02 2005
From: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@DOMINO.ORG>
To: <Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 12:12:31 +0100
In-Reply-To: <OF38C066CB.D5AD9C93-ON8025703B.0034251C-8025703B.00352557@radianz.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> Some of the problems on the mobile networks were the result
> of a protocol to reserve mobile capabilities for the
> emergency services. The police have the authority to switch
> cells to emergency service and then people with specially
> registered SIM cards in their mobile can take priority.
> Presumably, some amount of capacity is also held in reserve
> for these people as well.
Requests from the police on specific SIM numbers on certain
mobile networks whilst others applied such that you got no
access to a cell site, others deployed a limit on normal SIM
cards to limit the access down by 50% so that there was some
level of service.
Regards,
Neil.
