[AusNOG] Telstra mobile down "nationwide"

[Joshua D'Alton]

Lan parties on Sunday could go wireless,  be interesting to see how Telstra
towers cope with 50-100+ devices that might be sitting there downloading at
full speed. (or whatever 1/10G backhaul divided by 100 allows)

On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 8:01 PM, Bevan Slattery <bevan at slattery.net.au>
wrote:

> Oh dear.
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> [b]
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> On 12 Feb 2016, at 6:49 PM, Tom Berryman <Tom at connectivityit.com.au>
> wrote:
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> Challenge accepted…?
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> *From:* AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
> <ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net>] *On Behalf Of *Joshua D'Alton
> *Sent:* Friday, 12 February 2016 7:45 PM
> *To:* Narelle <narellec at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* ausnog at ausnog.net <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] Telstra mobile down "nationwide"
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> Apparently this Sunday is free data day,
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> *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.  *
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> On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 4:20 PM, Narelle <narellec at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Then there's this one:
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> http://www.itnews.com.au/news/telecom-nz-hands-out-cdma-phones-after-3g-network-failure-165889
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> and this one:
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> https://wirelesse2e.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/another-outage-more-lessons-geo-redundancy-couldnt-prevent-verizon-lte-service-disruption/
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> 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).
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> 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.
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> Narelle
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> 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:
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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.
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> <http://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~jdalbey/SWE/Papers/att_collapse.html>
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