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Comment by in0v8r

4 hours ago

The alternative network reports are most likely people trying to call Verizon customers and reporting an outage when they can't get through.

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eob  4 hours ago

You think like a person who’s debugged large systems failures before :). That feels very plausible.

  • madcaptenor  2 hours ago

    I've seen it happen before - in the big AT&T outage a couple years ago reports came in on downdetector of outages for other providers.

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