Topic: Network Outage

A massive Verizon network outage left millions of customers across the United States unable to call, text, or use data, with major impacts in New York, Houston, and Miami. The outage, attributed to a software glitch in New Jersey, prompted emergency officials to advise citizens to use landlines or visit firehouses for 911 services. The incident sparked a discussion on the fragility of centralized networks and the utility of digital Baofeng ham radios.

AT&T experienced a widespread nationwide service outage that affected over 74,000 users from Chicago to Los Angeles. The company attributed the incident to a technical error during a software update while expanding their network, rather than a cyberattack. To compensate impacted customers, AT&T offered a $5 credit, which will appear on billing statements within one to two cycles.

Rogers Communications CEO Tony Staffieri apologized for a massive 24-hour nationwide internet and cellular outage in Canada caused by a maintenance upgrade. The failure disrupted emergency services, travel, and debit transactions, leading to calls for a public inquiry by the CRTC into the lack of telecommunications competition in the country.

A massive 911 service outage affecting Washington state was traced to a technical error in a third-party vendor's call router managed by CenturyLink. The hosts criticize the lack of hardware redundancy and note that CenturyLink was previously fined $16 million for a similar failure in 2014.

The White House computer network reportedly suffered a week-long outage, limiting staff access to files. Simultaneously, a massive sunspot has raised concerns about X-class solar flares that could disrupt electronic communications. One host describes keeping handheld radios in a "Faraday bag" as a precaution against a potential electromagnetic event.

Adam Curry reports experiencing low-level networking problems and routing issues with Google services. He suspects the issues may be related to Level 3 Communications or Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) errors, noting that certain IP addresses appeared to be used by multiple interfaces.