Happy to report that meshtastic is still functioning, despite not being charged a monthly service fee.
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not always, when I’m out in the middle of nowhere, I also see sos
By out in the middle of nowhere, you would have to not be able to connect to any carrier network at all. If you are a Verizon customer and can't get Verizon signal, but you can see an AT&T tower, you will connect to it to make 911 calls, or a T-Mobile tower, if that's the one you can see. It doesn't matter. Every carrier has to carry 911 calls for every other carrier.
Also iphones I think use satellite for SoS capability now if no cell
Newer phones can do satellite emergency calls too.
So the glitch is in auth/access/accounting, like the intern just pushed to prod.
I thought this wasn't a legal requirement of US carriers, sharing their towers for emergencies. Maybe it's a state thing.
Subpart B—Telecommunications Carriers
§ 9.4 Obligation to transmit 911 calls.
All telecommunications carriers shall transmit all 911 calls to a PSAP, to a designated statewide default answering point, or to an appropriate local emergency authority as set forth in § 9.5.
Verizon tried to charge me a dollar for an emailed version of some instructions their CSR was flubbing on the phone.
Glad to see that they seemed to have found their dollar somewhere else.
Glad that they mention, albeit a ways in, that reports of other carriers being down are because people try to call Verizon-serviced phones and freak out on Downdetector when it doesn’t go through.
People, switch to USMOBILE https://www.usmobile.com/
In before it's confirmed to be a DNS issue.
A haiku:
It’s not DNS
There’s no way it’s DNS
It was DNS
The third line of a haiku is traditionally meant to show a turn or a surprise element, so this is a fine haiku indeed.
Verizon has been laying off people like crazy since Q4 of last year... but I'm sure that's just a coincidence and this outage has nothing to do with cost cutting...
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