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>>PS, Mr. Metcalfe. Reports for the old reliable telephone system show >>over the course of a year, a daily average of 30,000 US telephone customers >>are out of service for five hours. > >Source please? The ATIS network reliability council steering committee report "Keeping the Network Alive And Well: Solving the problem of cable dig-ups." <http://www.atis.org/atis.nrsc/whatsne2.htm>: >Facility outages continue to be the leading contributor to outages in the >Public Switched Network. Approximately 50% of FCC-reportable service outages >and their impact have been caused by facility outages. Roughly 33 million >customers over the past three years or 30,000 customers a day have lost >access to the Public Switched network for an average of 5 hours because of >these problems. The ATIS NRSC Facilities Solution Team was chartered to >determine the causes of these facility outages and to recommend ways to >reduce their number and impact. A copy of the Facilities Solution Team report entitled "Keeping the Network Alive and Well: Solving the Problem of Cable Dig-Ups" can be obtained by contacting ATIS on (202) 628-6380. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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