[AusNOG] Telstra mobile down "nationwide"

[Matt Whitlock]

I have a complete photo library that requires cloud backup... :-)
On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 at 19:16 Joshua D'Alton <joshua at railgun.com.au> wrote:

> 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:
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>> 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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>> Roland Dobbins <rdobbins at arbor.net>
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>> Narelle
>> narellec at gmail.com
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