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Re: BT network outage
From: neil () DOMINO ORG (Neil J. McRae)
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 23:17:45 +0000 (GMT)
The joy of single provider service. British Telecom lost most of its national IP backbone on Tuesday affecting DSL and Dialup service across multiple ISPs in the UK. According to news reports, this affected almost all DSL service in the UK. What happened to BT? Is this a unique "feature" of the UK marketplace or can the same thing happen in the USA?
No one will ever know but I'd guess it was self inflicted, it didn't affect all providers though, my partner has DSL via one provider that was not affected, I've got DSL though another provider and that was affected [although the DSL boxes are less than 10 feet apart and go into the same exchange!] The issue in the UK around BT's ownership of the loop will never end as long as we have a government and more importantly a regulator that continues to think that "BT knows best". Regards, Neil.
Current thread:
- BT network outage Sean Donelan (Nov 21)
- Re: BT network outage Alex Bligh (Nov 21)
- Re: BT network outage Neil J. McRae (Nov 21)
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- RE: BT network outage Youse, Chuck (Nov 21)
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- RE: BT network outage Chris Parker (Nov 21)
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