a bit of an odd coincidence

[waider]

This morning I was telling my coworkers about AT&T's 1991 MLK day outage (the short version: they deployed faulty software which, on crashing, caused an exchange to send out a signal to its neighbouring exchanges to say "I'm rebooting"; this signal caused the receiving exchanges to crash. Whammo, half the network fell over. AT&T initially blamed it on hackers), and this evening I find my cellphone has dropped off the network and can't even get the operator (O2) on the manual network selection list.

update: coverage lost in South Dublin/Wicklow.

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