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- From: Jack.Winslade@ivgate.omahug.org (Jack Winslade)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Major Phone Outage in Omaha
- Message-ID: <telecom12.675.1@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 05:03:33 GMT
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- Reply-To: jsw@drbbs.omahug.org
- Organization: DRBBS Technical BBS, Omaha
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 675, Message 1 of 12
-
- At about 10:45 AM this morning, a major malfunction in US West's 135th
- St. office resulted in the disruption of 3/4 of the phones served from
- the CO, according to the {Omaha World-Herald}. At press time, the
- exact cause was not known, but a US West spokesman stated that it was
- probably a problem with the switching or computer equipment.
-
- Television station WOWT reported that 'It was a computer error and not
- a cable cut' and that service was restored in the late afternoon.
- (The map shown by the station GREATLY exaggerated the area of the
- outage, showing large areas to the east and south of the area served
- by that office.)
-
- The 135th St. office serves some 33x and all 69x prefixes in the Omaha
- area. I've been told by an 'insider' that it is a #5 ESS <tm>.
- Ironically, both the west Omaha US West office (which includes
- residential service reps) and some of AT&T's offices are served out of
- 135th and were shut down. Non-emergency lines to the Douglas County
- Sheriff's office were out, but 911 was said to be in service during
- the outage.
-
- The CLID log on DRBBS shows a call from the 330 office at 10:24 AM
- with no other calls from the affected COs since. Calls from the
- surrounding offices appear to be coming through with no trouble.
-
-
- Good day. JSW
-