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AT&T outage caused by software update, company says
abc news ^ | Feb 22, 2024 | Max Zahn, Jon Haworth, Josh Margolin, Jack Date, and Luke Barr

Posted on 02/23/2024 11:00:57 AM PST by plain talk

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To: mikey_hates_everything

So Verizon, ATT, and T Mobil ALL had a software update at the same time REALLY??? I call BS!!


41 posted on 02/23/2024 12:24:29 PM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Lazamataz

Damn’ right. Ain’t Texting & Talking eff’d up. Badly.


42 posted on 02/23/2024 12:28:07 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: C210N

It must have been geographically determined. In my area Verizon and T mobile were fine. The problems came from AT & T users attempting to communicate with other carriers and vice-versa.


43 posted on 02/23/2024 12:33:39 PM PST by madison10
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To: plain talk

Software update with a DEI connection?


44 posted on 02/23/2024 12:38:03 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: C210N

Starlink was affected...

https://youtu.be/_LklNnu7EKM


45 posted on 02/23/2024 12:54:41 PM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: plain talk

ID10T error.


46 posted on 02/23/2024 1:01:11 PM PST by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: plain talk

Sounds like the government. Whenever our IT systems in the Air Force were updated, there were ALWAYS problems that they had to go back and fix.


47 posted on 02/23/2024 1:05:57 PM PST by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: plain talk

Who believes this lie? No seriously, who. I need your names and bank draft numbers so I can sell you the Brooklyn Bridge. Cheap REALLY cheap!


48 posted on 02/23/2024 1:09:13 PM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (America -- July 4, 1776 to November 3, 2020 -- R.I.P.)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

No, but what else is AT&T going to say? The truth? Right, any evidence they might have has already disappeared.


49 posted on 02/23/2024 1:09:54 PM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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To: plain talk

But it sounded so much more alarming when it was a solar flair or espionage


50 posted on 02/23/2024 1:51:21 PM PST by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: NautiNurse

And, some of them resell AT&T minutes.
And, AT&T owns discount sellers like Cricket.

I guess you would have to have network analyzer to figure out which network you were really talking through...


51 posted on 02/23/2024 1:54:18 PM PST by Andy from Chapel Hill (Wind energy windmills remove the energy from the wind, which causes global warming.)
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To: NautiNurse

Correct.


52 posted on 02/23/2024 1:55:15 PM PST by EEGator
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To: ClearCase_guy

It was a “special ATT solar flare….”


53 posted on 02/23/2024 2:17:04 PM PST by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: plain talk

D’oh!


54 posted on 02/23/2024 2:26:46 PM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: Highest Authority

Oh yeah, sure! Coincidentally happened on the same day as a huge military exercise!
*********
What huge military exercise?


55 posted on 02/23/2024 4:01:58 PM PST by yldstrk
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To: xoxox

WFFM _ aka “whiff-fem”

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56 posted on 02/23/2024 5:41:02 PM PST by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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AT&T failed to test disastrous update that kicked all devices off network

AT&T caused outage that blocked 92 million calls, 25,000 attempts to reach 911.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/07/fcc-details-att-screwups-behind-outage-that-blocked-25000-calls-to-911/

At 2:42 am CST on February 22, an AT&T “employee placed a new network element into its production network during a routine night maintenance window in order to expand network functionality and capacity,” the FCC said. The configuration “did not conform to AT&T’s established network element design and installment procedures, which require peer review.”

An adequate peer review should have prevented the network change from being approved and from being loaded onto the network, but this peer review did not take place, the FCC said. The configuration error was made by one employee, and the misconfigured network element was loaded onto the network by a second employee.

“The fact that the network change was loaded onto the AT&T Mobility network indicates that AT&T Mobility had insufficient oversight and controls in place to ensure that approval had occurred prior to loading,” the FCC said.


57 posted on 07/26/2024 6:33:07 PM PDT by Texan4Life
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To: plain talk
Probably a LIE. WHY? Because, whatever the TRUTH, we the PUBLIC, must be PROTECTED from it!


58 posted on 07/26/2024 6:49:37 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: plain talk

A government investigation has revealed more detail on the impact and causes of a recent AT&T outage that happened immediately after a botched network update. The nationwide outage on February 22, 2024, blocked over 92 million phone calls, including over 25,000 attempts to reach 911.

The FCC Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau finds that the extensive scope and duration of this outage was the result of several factors, all attributable to AT&T Mobility, including a configuration error, a lack of adherence to AT&T Mobility’s internal procedures, a lack of peer review, a failure to adequately test after installation, inadequate laboratory testing, insufficient safeguards and controls to ensure approval of changes affecting the core network, a lack of controls to mitigate the effects of the outage once it began, and a variety of system issues that prolonged the outage once the configuration error had been remedied.


59 posted on 07/26/2024 7:37:55 PM PDT by Texan4Life
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