Re: Telephones Out US West Coast?

[Doug L <vssdoug@xxxxxxx>]

Next alarm I believe contracts some or all its service to GMS in Long
Beach, CA, since Long Beach is in the 562 area code its very likely that
they were down this morning.


Doug L


Doug L wrote:
> Verizon had a huge outage this morning affecting incoming calls South of
> Los Angeles from around 2:30am to somehwere around 11:30am, 911 service
> was also out in the affected areas. I think area code 562 was the
> hardest hit with some 714 & 310 codes also affected.
>
> Doug L
>
> Armond Perretta wrote:
>
>> This morning my NextAlarm service was out for about 6 or 7 hours.
>> Neither
>> my alarm nor my regular service could get through.  Later they came
>> back up
>> with the story that telephone and Internet service was disrupted on
>> the West
>> Coast and that the outage was beyond their control.
>>
>> This sounds like nonsense.  First, the "Internet" cannot be "out" in any
>> particular region.  It's just doesn't function like that.  Second, I
>> cannot
>> find a single mention of a disruption of telephone service in the US for
>> this morning.
>>