{"id":523,"date":"2006-01-10T01:20:16","date_gmt":"2006-01-10T06:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=523"},"modified":"2006-01-10T01:48:24","modified_gmt":"2006-01-10T06:48:24","slug":"the-downside-of-wireless-consolidation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=523","title":{"rendered":"Hey Sprint: It&#8217;s the Network, Stupid!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, after the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sprintnextel.com\/\">Sprint Nextel<\/a> Merger is all tidied up and signed, sealed and delivered, we get to see the ugly downside of wireless consolidation: a cut of a single fiber optic cable disables service for <strong>both<\/strong> the the former Sprint and Nextel networks throuoghout the west coast, in addition to Sprint-served wireline, internet and long distance service.  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/US\/01\/09\/sprint.outage\/index.html\">Isn&#8217;t consolidation fun?!:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The problems began about 3:30 p.m. ET and affected wireless phones on the Sprint PCS and Nextel networks, as well as landline service, said John Taylor, Sprint&#8217;s manager of public affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Internet service on Sprint Nextel phones was also delayed, the company said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A fiber-optic cable was cut between Phoenix [Arizona] and Palm Springs, California,&#8221; said Taylor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The outage was made worse due to inopportune timing: according to the article, a number of other routes had been shut down for maintenance, forcing even more traffic than normal onto the cut route and magnifying the severity of the resulting outage.<\/p>\n<p>Further, while Sprint claims the outage affected customers only on the west coast, users were reporting <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.howardforums.com\/showthread.php?t=817672\">outages and network busies from places as far-flung as Wisconsin, Minnesota and Texas<\/a>.<br \/>\nFantastic, Sprint!<\/p>\n<blockquote \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, after the Sprint Nextel Merger is all tidied up and signed, sealed and delivered, we get to see the ugly downside of wireless consolidation: a cut of a single fiber optic cable disables service for both the the former Sprint and Nextel networks throuoghout the west coast, in addition to Sprint-served wireline, internet and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-widgits-and-whatzits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}