[AusNOG] Telstra mobile down "nationwide"

[Joshua D'Alton]

Apparently this Sunday is free data day,




*As a small gesture to say sorry, we’re giving you — as a Telstra mobile
customer — free mobile data within Australia this Sunday. 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.  *

On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 4:20 PM, Narelle <narellec at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Then there's this one:
>
> http://www.itnews.com.au/news/telecom-nz-hands-out-cdma-phones-after-3g-network-failure-165889
>
>
> and this one:
>
> https://wirelesse2e.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/another-outage-more-lessons-geo-redundancy-couldnt-prevent-verizon-lte-service-disruption/
>
> 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).
>
> 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.
>
>
> Narelle
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Roland Dobbins <rdobbins at arbor.net>
> wrote:
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>> On 11 Feb 2016, at 6:55, TWIG Solutions wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> <http://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~jdalbey/SWE/Papers/att_collapse.html>
>>
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>> Roland Dobbins <rdobbins at arbor.net>
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