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The Telecom Digest for September 13, 2012
Volume 31 : Issue 216 : "text" Format
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Re: Problem using modem with phone on T junction (unknown)
Major outage in West Glacier, Montana (Bill Horne)

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Date: 12 Sep 2012 02:25:06 -0300
From: Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Problem using modem with phone on T junction    
Message-ID: <87vcfj3j9p.fsf@nudel.nodomain.nowhere>

tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> writes:

> On 08 Sep 2012 17:39:08 -0300, Mike Spencer wrote:
> 
>> I used ATH on the modem to drop the call -
>> but this makes no difference.
> 
> You did issue a Hayes escape sequence +++ and then wait 1000 milliseconds
> before issuing the on-hook-please command ATH, right? Otherwise,  ... .

Yes, yes. The modem was working properly, failed in daily service.
I'm as sure as anyone who's not a hardware wonk can be that it was
failed hardware.  Hence the post to suggest failed hardware to the OP.

-- 
Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada




Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:02:07 -0600
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Major outage in West Glacier, Montana   
Message-ID: <k2r0ou$hmq$1@dont-email.me>

The entire phone system is out of service in West Glacier, Montana. The 
grocery store, restaurants, the Post Office and my phone are all out of 
order, and everyone is saying "fiber cut".

I don't have dialtone, so that means we're on a remote and the umbilical 
was cut: I don't remember which remotes have some "local" dialtone 
capability, but this isn't one of them.  No 911, no nothing.

Someone, please tell me what the criteria are for a "Major" outage that 
must be reported to the FCC. Does anyone know where I can check? How 
long before Centurylink has to declare it?

Bill
-- 
Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my address to write to me directly)

*Moderator note: I believe that carruer outage reports to the FCC are no
longer publicl available.  Post-9/11 anti-disclosure of 'critical infra-
structure' data.  Can somebody currently active in the field confirm?






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