Storms - an "emergency preparadness issue"

Anchor · 12-30-2008, 03:31 AM

Saw this on slashdot [http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?.../12/29/146227]

"AT&T left users across several Midwestern states without cellular phone service yesterday. The outage apparently resulted from a power failure at a Michigan switching center and spread to affect level3 Internet communications. The powerful windstorm also left 400,000 users without electricity. Interestingly, except for a few reports in Chicago and Indianapolis papers, AT&T has managed to keep this out of the mainstream media. Widespread communication failures also followed Hurricane Ike in Texas earlier this year. With the increasing trend for users to drop landlines and rely only on cell phones, this is becoming an emergency preparedness issue."

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Just in case you needed some more hints ... two points being made

1) AT&T controlling media
2) People not prepared

A..

12-30-2008, 03:31 AM	#1
Anchor Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia Posts: 2,280	Storms - an "emergency preparadness issue" Saw this on slashdot [http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?.../12/29/146227] "AT&T left users across several Midwestern states without cellular phone service yesterday. The outage apparently resulted from a power failure at a Michigan switching center and spread to affect level3 Internet communications. The powerful windstorm also left 400,000 users without electricity. Interestingly, except for a few reports in Chicago and Indianapolis papers, AT&T has managed to keep this out of the mainstream media. Widespread communication failures also followed Hurricane Ike in Texas earlier this year. With the increasing trend for users to drop landlines and rely only on cell phones, this is becoming an emergency preparedness issue." -- Just in case you needed some more hints ... two points being made 1) AT&T controlling media 2) People not prepared A.. Last edited by Anchor; 12-30-2008 at 03:33 AM.