jervin123
join:2005-04-14
Philadelphia, PA
| What!
what from what I guess many exchanges that were tottally whiped to pieces and the bell south network is still a mess i mean it was a mess i had difficulty calling some citys in LA that were not affected by the hurricane because bell south blocked access past those tandems from cingular's network and from my pots CLEC Cavalier Telephone but i was able to call for some reason a landline in N.O that was forwarding to a cell phone that ended up with its owner in texas |
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Kfedka
Premium
join:2005-05-06
Spokane, WA | Stupid BellSouth, great way to improve the image of your company. I'll be sure to recommend you to my circle of friends/relative(sarcasm)! |
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bogey780
join:2004-03-19
Here
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Re: What!
It's hard to understand what you're saying but I don't think you understand what happens when you have total failure of a fiber ring around a major transport hub. All telephone circuits and long distance calls will get jammed. Cingular went down also with their local switch and their network traffic couldn't handle the network congestion as they tried to rebuild their network.
Do you want to know how many fiber lines were getting cut on a daily basis?
Oh btw, as to the topic at hand. BellSouth kept a lot f the remaining communications up and running as best they could. The city meanwhile did it's damnest prior to the hurricane to squash an amazing grant backed project that would have provided emergency radio communications. The reason? The people running it didn't grease the right palms. |
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scaredpoet
join:2001-03-26
Monmouth Junction, NJ
3 edits | said by bogey780  :Oh btw, as to the topic at hand. BellSouth kept a lot f the remaining communications up and running as best they could. *shrug* Oh BTW, four months later, I have close family members and friends in Louisiana who are still getting blocked calls on their Cingular Wireless and BellSouth landline phones, to known working numbers. Many have switched their Cingular phones to Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile in order tog et reliable phone service. Mysteriously, VZ, T-Mo and S don't seem to have these relibaility problems, having long restored their service fully even though they serve the same areas in Louisiana.
I guess poor, poor Bellsouth can't get things going because there's just too much competition from those darn competent competitors, huh?
The city meanwhile did it's damnest prior to the hurricane to squash an amazing grant backed project that would have provided emergency radio communications.
And I wonder: if New Orleans had made the decision to green light this, would that emergency radio communications system have worked? Would it be working now? From what I've seen of Bellsouth, probably not! And you would probably be hear pontificating about how HARD and CHALLENGING it is to fix spliced cables and SONET rings. Oh, boo hoo, BellSouth! |
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bogey780
join:2004-03-19
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| Cingular's problem isn't one of cut fiber. It has to do with their switch breaking. Oddly enough when the main hub's switch breaks people have problems when you rush to set up a new one.
And you do realize Cingular and BellSouth are seperate companies, don't you? |
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