<div dir="ltr">Apparently this Sunday is free data day, <div><br></div><div><i>As a small gesture to say sorry, we’re giving you — as a Telstra mobile <br>customer — free mobile data within Australia this Sunday.
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Whether you’re on a
personal or business, pre-paid or post-paid mobile, tablet or mobile
broadband plan, you will automatically receive free data, from midnight
to midnight in your local Australian time zone Sunday 14 February
2016. </i> <br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 4:20 PM, Narelle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:narellec@gmail.com" target="_blank">narellec@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br>Then there's this one:<br><a href="http://www.itnews.com.au/news/telecom-nz-hands-out-cdma-phones-after-3g-network-failure-165889" target="_blank">http://www.itnews.com.au/news/telecom-nz-hands-out-cdma-phones-after-3g-network-failure-165889</a> <div><br></div><div>and this one:</div><div><a href="https://wirelesse2e.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/another-outage-more-lessons-geo-redundancy-couldnt-prevent-verizon-lte-service-disruption/" target="_blank">https://wirelesse2e.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/another-outage-more-lessons-geo-redundancy-couldnt-prevent-verizon-lte-service-disruption/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>A lot of it has to do with the massive increase in signalling as each user terminal tries to re-register with the HLR/HSS (3G/4G respectively).</div><div><br></div><div>That's why when you bring them back on you have to do it gradually... it is a highly reliable system generally and 4G is definitely more so than 3G.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Narelle</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Roland Dobbins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rdobbins@arbor.net" target="_blank">rdobbins@arbor.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>On 11 Feb 2016, at 6:55, TWIG Solutions wrote:<br>
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Same thing occurred there, if and RNG failed, if the switch-over to the standby failed for some reason, the resulting registration storm caused the network to fall-over for 18 hours.<br>
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