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    <p>Are they using Ericsson gear? <br>
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    <p>I'm beginning to wonder if it's related to this issue:</p>
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      initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Ericsson: Expired
      certificate caused O2 and SoftBank outages</h1>
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      style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; font-weight: 300; font-size: 1.25em;
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      -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
      255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
      initial;">Ericsson has said an expired certificate was the root
      cause of a global outage, with O2 still working to restore 3G and
      4G data services while SoftBank telco services are all back up and
      running.</p>
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      initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">An expired certificate
      was the cause of a data outage across O2 and SoftBank mobile
      services in the United Kingdom and Japan, respectively, Ericsson
      has revealed.</p>
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      0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
      initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"An initial root cause
      analysis indicates that the main issue was an expired certificate
      in the software versions installed with these customers," Ericsson
      said.</p>
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      initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"A complete and
      comprehensive root cause analysis is still in progress. Our focus
      is now on solving the immediate issues."</p>
    <p style="margin: 0px 0px 21px; color: rgb(8, 14, 20); font-family:
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      initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The issue affected nodes
      in the core networks of customers using two software versions of
      the Serving GPRS Support Node - Mobility Management Entity
      (SGSN-MME), Ericsson said, adding that it had taken immediate
      action to enable service restoration.</p>
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      0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
      initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"The faulty software
      that has caused these issues is being decommissioned, and we
      apologise not only to our customers but also to their customers,"
      Ericsson CEO Börje Ekholm said.</p>
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      initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">(More at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/ericsson-expired-certificate-caused-o2-and-softbank-outages/">https://www.zdnet.com/article/ericsson-expired-certificate-caused-o2-and-softbank-outages/</a>
      ..)<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/12/18 13:40, Tim Sheahan wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">I don't see Noggers talking about this recently,
        however my Telstra phone calls & data are still not working
        in VIC.</div>
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        <div dir="ltr">On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 11:29 PM Jamie Lovick <<a
            href="mailto:jalovick@doof.org" moz-do-not-send="true">jalovick@doof.org</a>>
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            <div dir="auto">Hi,</div>
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          <div dir="auto">I had the same on Vodafone, about the same
            time, in NSW. </div>
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          <div dir="auto">Jamie</div>
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              <div dir="ltr">On Fri, 7 Dec 2018 at 6:51 pm, Andrew White
                <<a href="mailto:admin@uberskilled.com"
                  target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">admin@uberskilled.com</a>>
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                <div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Hi all,
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                  <div>Has anyone seen widespread Telstra mobile issues,
                    specifically across VIC and QLD?</div>
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                  <div>We’re getting a number of reports of issues to
                    Telstra numbers between 5:45pm-6:30pm, although it
                    appears no longer to be occurring. At the time, we
                    couldn’t reach them via any of our SIP or SS7
                    peering.</div>
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                  <div>Also seen a large spike of reports on “<a
                      href="http://downdetector.com" target="_blank"
                      moz-do-not-send="true">downdetector.com</a>”:</div>
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                  <div>Cheers,</div>
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                  <div>Andrew</div>
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                      <div><font face="courier new, monospace">Jamie
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