Re: Sept. 30 Verizon outage

2024-10-02 Thread Jared Mauch
> On Oct 2, 2024, at 3:55 AM, Mark Tinka wrote: > > > > > On 10/1/24 19:38, Jared Mauch wrote: >> As the market squeezes margins our tolerance for faults also narrows. > > I think with the squeeze on margins getting tighter and tighter, all manner > of bad things will escalate. > I’m ho

Re: Sept. 30 Verizon outage

2024-10-02 Thread Mark Tinka
On 10/1/24 19:38, Jared Mauch wrote: As the market squeezes margins our tolerance for faults also narrows. I think with the squeeze on margins getting tighter and tighter, all manner of bad things will escalate. Mark.

Re: Sept. 30 Verizon outage

2024-10-01 Thread Tim Burke
I’ve been a fan of US Mobile (also not an endorsement) for this purpose - my primary line is Verizon Business, but US Mobile provides access to all three of the major US carriers along with the ability to easily swap between them. Cheap enough to keep as a backup esim, too. On Oct 1, 2024, at 1

Re: Sept. 30 Verizon outage

2024-10-01 Thread Eric Kuhnke
Not related to Verizon or outages at all (though it certainly was going to be a very expensive and large scale outage at the time), there's a fascinating book about the group of investors and people who formed a new group to acquire the "v1.0" Iridium network out of bankruptcy, turn it into a DoD e

Re: Sept. 30 Verizon outage

2024-10-01 Thread Aaron Groom
That will be an interesting read. I recently read the book "Rogers v Rogers" that covers the major Rogers Communications outage in Canada from a couple years ago. The book is mostly biographical, but it lays a good historical foundation for those events. Anyone else have any good book recommenda

Re: Sept. 30 Verizon outage

2024-10-01 Thread TJ Trout
for anyone that finds this useful, you can get a 1 year esim with 30gb of data for about $30 on a diverse carrier from your primary, check esimdb.com (I don't work for them, just enjoy the service) On Tue, Oct 1, 2024 at 10:41 AM Jared Mauch wrote: > Due to the scale of this I would expect an ou

Re: Sept. 30 Verizon outage

2024-10-01 Thread Jared Mauch
Due to the scale of this I would expect an outage report to appear with the FCC in the next year. I do think this highlights the increased frequency and impact of these outages. Make sure you have backup plans for communications if one or more fails. While my personal impact was near nil many

Sept. 30 Verizon outage

2024-10-01 Thread Andy Ringsmuth
Now that this is behind us, I’m wondering if anyone has heard what actually happened. Does Verizon do after-action reports that we could find? Andy Ringsmuth 5609 Harding Drive Lincoln, NE 68521-5831 (402) 202-1230 a...@andyring.com