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Re: London incidents
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 15:20:05 +0200
On 11-jul-2005, at 13:31, Michael.Dillon () btradianz com wrote:
A hospital using up "emergency mode" GSM capacity doesn't make much sense to me.
This was just a guess on my part because the congestion in this suburban area lasted well into the evening.
Could be lots of things. Maybe it was really the hospital, but then simply the people in the waiting area calling all over the place. Or maybe some completely unrelated problem with the cell network in your area.
When it gets really bad the random access channel gets clogged and all mobile- intiated communication, including SMS, is dead in the water.
I never had a problem sending or receiving SMS other than the long delays. The people on the other end were near Aldgate on the edge of central London so even there, SMS was still functioning.
Follow the money... At several hundreds of your favorite currency unit per megabyte, I'm not surprised they manage to keep this service running.
Here in the Netherlands we had free airtime for a few hours at the beginning of the new year several times, and it was interesting to see what this did to the networks.
Current thread:
- London incidents Neil J. McRae (Jul 07)
- Re: London incidents Brad Knowles (Jul 07)
- RE: London incidents Neil J. McRae (Jul 07)
- Re: London incidents Gadi Evron (Jul 07)
- Re: London incidents Sean Donelan (Jul 09)
- Re: London incidents Spencer Wood (Jul 11)
- Re: London incidents Sean Donelan (Jul 09)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: London incidents Fergie (Paul Ferguson) (Jul 07)
- RE: London incidents Michael . Dillon (Jul 11)
- Re: London incidents Iljitsch van Beijnum (Jul 11)
- Re: London incidents Michael . Dillon (Jul 11)
- Re: London incidents Iljitsch van Beijnum (Jul 11)
- Re: London incidents Jay R. Ashworth (Jul 11)
- RE: London incidents Michael . Dillon (Jul 11)
- RE: London incidents Neil J. McRae (Jul 11)
- Re: London incidents Brad Knowles (Jul 07)
- Re: London incidents Robert E . Seastrom (Jul 11)
- Re: London incidents Steven M. Bellovin (Jul 11)
- Re: London incidents Robert E . Seastrom (Jul 11)
- Re: London incidents Scott W Brim (Jul 11)
- Re: London incidents Jay R. Ashworth (Jul 11)
- RE: London incidents Sean Donelan (Jul 11)