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Yesterday’s outage brought to you by T-Mobile

June 16, 2020 Paul E King 0 Comments

While reports came across all carriers that there were widespread voice outages, the only company that’s owning it appears to be T-Mobile (which includes Sprint). This is probably correct and not spin.

In Nashville I was able to make calls but they rang and never alerted other people. Texting and data were fine.

Voice and text services are now restored. Thank you for your patience as we fixed the issues. We sincerely apologize for any and all inconveniences.
— Neville (@NevilleRay) June 16, 2020

A little after midnight Neville Ray, T-Mobile’s president of tech tweeted out things were fixed.

There were some claims that this was a massive DDOS attack on the US yesterday, but it wasn’t. What appeared to happen was T-Mobile/Sprint users suddenly were unable to access a large chunk of the net because Sprint/TM had a network configuration issue.

There’s a lot of buzz right now about a “massive DDoS attack” targeting the US, complete with scary-looking graphs (see Tweet below). While it makes for a good headline in these already dramatic times, it’s not accurate. The reality is far more boring. 1/X https://t.co/4wDIlKnfQg
— Matthew Prince ? (@eastdakota) June 15, 2020

So yeah… the Sprint / TMobile deployment merger didn’t go as smoothly as it should have and it took them a few hours to figure out what exactly was going wrong. I mean really, all they had to do was combine several thousand towers, integrate several hundred 5G systems, change a few million SIP trunks, modify their combined BGP, throw in a few thousand rules for specific areas… how hard is that?

I kid…

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