North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: SkyTel 2Way pagers DOWN all US
On Tue, May 19, 1998 at 08:46:07PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Just wanted to inform anyone that relies on this for system notifications > > etc. Skytel lost a satellite feed and all of their 2-Way pagers are down. > > I called them and they told me that it had been down since 5:00pm CST and > > they hoped to have it back 'soon'. > > There was a satellite failure that has taken out most paging in the US. My > AirTouch is also out. I assume that the paging comanies are scrambling to get > other access. Interestingly enough, my Tampa PageNet pager died around the same time, was down at 0300, and was working at 0830. The reason it's interesting is that I'm _not_ a nationwide customer. Their _local_ RF was down. Go figure. CHeers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [email protected] Member of the Technical Staff Unsolicited Commercial Emailers Sued The Suncoast Freenet "Two words: Darth Doogie." -- Jason Colby, Tampa Bay, Florida on alt.fan.heinlein +1 813 790 7592 Managing Editor, Top Of The Key sports e-zine ------------ http://www.totk.com
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