Cellular Network Crashes In Norway...Again
According to a brief account by the Associated Press this early afternoon,
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An initial outage, in most of the country’s northern half, was reported by NetCom to be caused by human error during work on an exchange.
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OK. Human error? Not a tech kink or quirk that occurred with the network’s infrastructure due to God-sent disasters? But human error? Leaving an entire half of a country without service of their cell phones for one to three hours, resulting in the inability to make calls or send text messages?
Even Homer never melted down the
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(“Uh, I think it’s the red wire.” “No, no, it’s the blue one.” “Careful with the coffee!” “Oops. I think it’s OK. Uh, Svein, you think a�few drops of coffee on that wire will cause any damage?”)
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Another breakdown on June 11 left about 20 percent of NetCom’s 1.2 million subscribers without service for more than a day, leaving subscribers without the ability to call or text message -- for more than a day!
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According to Norwegian news source, Aftenposten, regarding a NetCom network folly: “NetCom officials themselves had to resort to using their arch rival Telenor’s service, while several corporate customers scrambled to re-install the permanent telephone lines that were removed when they went over to strictly mobile operations.” Even a government minister in charge of communications and transportation issues was unable to use her cell phone.�
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See AP’s coverage below.
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Breakdown Causes
A second network breakdown in 10 days for
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NetCom said in a statement that an initial outage in most of
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Another breakdown on June 11 left about 20 percent of NetCom's 1.2 million subscribers without service for more than a day until the problem was repaired.
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In both cases, subscribers were unable to make calls or send text messages.
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