Western United States Phone Grid Down?

[AreaCode707]

In my area, every call made outside of local calls is resulting in a busy signal. Anyone else finding this? (Next step in terrorist attacks?) Any internet connection that requires a phone line isn't working. How widespread is this?

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: HotChic
In my area, every call made outside of local calls is resulting in a busy signal. Anyone else finding this? (Next step in terrorist attacks?) Any internet connection that requires a phone line isn't working. How widespread is this?

you sure it isnt the local phone company having trouble? MCI has done that to my company, we were without local and 800 numbers for 2 days.

 

[pyonir]

HotChic, are incoming calls working??

 

[AreaCode707]

iamwiz, that's why I'd like to find out if anyone else in Cali is having this prob. Call your parents, if it works, they'll be thrilled. If it doesn't, you'll be thrilled.

 

[AreaCode707]

Originally posted by: pyonir
HotChic, are incoming calls working??

Sure honey, for $3.95 a minute.

 

[pyonir]

Originally posted by: HotChic

Originally posted by: pyonir
HotChic, are incoming calls working??

Sure honey, for $3.95 a minute.

dammit! don't i pay enough already? :Q

 

[geekender]

Can you dial 800#'s ?

 

[Random Variable]

Originally posted by: HotChic

Originally posted by: pyonir
HotChic, are incoming calls working??

Sure honey, for $3.95 a minute.

Do I have to get my mother's permission before I call?

 

[AreaCode707]

Originally posted by: geekender
Can you dial 800#'s ?

Nope. Can't even dial (what is it?) 611 to get ahold of the phone company.

 

[Hammer]

Call her now for your free reading!

Originally posted by: Vespasian

Originally posted by: HotChic

Originally posted by: pyonir
HotChic, are incoming calls working??

Sure honey, for $3.95 a minute.

Do I have to get my mother's permission before I call?

 

[geekender]

Might want to try using a 10-10 number and see if the dial around can get you out. If so, it is your ld carrier.

 

[technogeeky]

Maybe you forgot to pay your bills?

 

[N8Magic]

Originally posted by: HotChic
In my area, every call made outside of local calls is resulting in a busy signal. Anyone else finding this? (Next step in terrorist attacks?) Any internet connection that requires a phone line isn't working. How widespread is this?

HotChic,

The problem isn't likely as widespread as you may think. What is likely happening is that the phone equipment in your area has been cut off from the host (main) equipment. When this happens, the remote equipment will go into Emergency Stand Alone (ESA) mode where it will only process calls internal to your area because the remote office equipment can no longer communicate with the host office equipment which does all the switching.

The most common reason for this is a cable cut, but there are a number of other reasons that this may happen including storms, power outages or accidental unprovisioning of the equipment.

Sorry if this seems confusing... this stuff is not easy to put in regular terms.

 

[cavemanmoron]

i can't get thru to west coast from albany ny...
Edge Micro Corp
915 Shelley Street
Springfield, OR 97477
(800) 796-5188
waaah
:frown:
2 hours locally now....can't get thru to Oregon.... hmm. almost 6 pm east coast

 

[Viper GTS]

There are only two people in my call group on calls right now, it got really dead really fast...

Probably unrelated, but strange nonetheless.

Viper GTS

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

it's possible that all the fires in the area might have taken out a key line or switching station or something.

 

[N8Magic]

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
it's possible that all the fires in the area might have taken out a key line or switching station or something.

Assuming she doesn't live in a rural area, local dynamic routing should take care of that if that is in fact the case.

 

[RossMAN]

Damn $3.95 a minute?

Can't we get an ATOT "group discount rate"?



Then again you really don't want close to 90,000 horny geeky teenagers callin' ya, do ya?

 

[Adul]

why not, for one minute of her time, over one hour she could net $297 bucks. or $2,376 for 8 hours of work :Q

 

[DevilsAdvocate]

Here's my little question. Your phone line does not work... Phones in your area don;t work...

How do you come up with the conclusion that the phone grid is down in the western United States? That is a bit of a reach isn't it?