bbman: No matter what has or hasnt been offered as compensation, a top level manager needs to be on TV3 and TVNZ news tonight at 6 offering compensation to every XT user effected.

There is a fast closing window of time for Telecom to act and be seen as doing the right thing, the typical silence from the top level shows a complete ignorance to the problem that has been created. Then agin the top level management at Telecom are generally pretty ignorant to the needs & wants of the masses, not unlike any other large corporate!

Ping:

Felix:

Ping: Wellington CBD Just went online - Phones all around me sprung into life.

Ironic My WM device detected an O2UK sim card when it came back online however.

That is most likely to be to do with the Roaming solution... If you power cycled your device, when it came back on, if there was no network, it would search for a roaming network... depending on a couple of things, once the network was back up, it should only take 30 seconds to find XT again (though it may take 5 minutes).

Hope this helps :-)

Felix

Oh it found XT straight away...butt WM said it had detected an O2 Sim...I disregarded the message and everythings working fine. Although my node was under a bunch of strain-but that was to be expected. Atleast we're up and running again.

bbman: No matter what has or hasnt been offered as compensation, a top level manager needs to be on TV3 and TVNZ news tonight at 6 offering compensation to every XT user effected.

There is a fast closing window of time for Telecom to act and be seen as doing the right thing, the typical silence from the top level shows a complete ignorance to the problem that has been created. Then agin the top level management at Telecom are generally pretty ignorant to the needs & wants of the masses, not unlike any other large corporate!

NealR: Just know that the restoration of todays service loss has been the focus of a very large number of people from all around the world.

Nobody wanted this to happen, nobody planned for this to happen, nobody "messed up" to cause this to happen, we don't have a "fundemental flaw" in our architecture and nobody was wasting time to resolve this issue. This was a serious event that could not have been planned for or tested around to develop quick and simple restoration plans.

Right now all I can do is appologise for the service interuption and praise the engineers who worked out the problem and resolved it.

Until you have been an engineer of a very complex technology that is responsible for the running of a large proportion of NZ businesses, as well as millions of dollars of revenue which when lost affects the pay packets of thousands of people, you cannot understand the preasure today's engineers had to deal with. Whether you like Telecom or it's suppliers, or it's technology choices, or the services it provides does not remove the fact that the engineers who resolved today's problems deserve respect.

Felix:

CDMA was a better technology than anything else available at the time. Granted the CDMA camp didn't have the marketing / cool devices etc but no one could have predicted which technology would win (though many claim they did now).

NealR: Just know that the restoration of todays service loss has been the focus of a very large number of people from all around the world.

Nobody wanted this to happen, nobody planned for this to happen, nobody "messed up" to cause this to happen, we don't have a "fundemental flaw" in our architecture and nobody was wasting time to resolve this issue. This was a serious event that could not have been planned for or tested around to develop quick and simple restoration plans.

Right now all I can do is appologise for the service interuption and praise the engineers who worked out the problem and resolved it.

Until you have been an engineer of a very complex technology that is responsible for the running of a large proportion of NZ businesses, as well as millions of dollars of revenue which when lost affects the pay packets of thousands of people, you cannot understand the preasure today's engineers had to deal with. Whether you like Telecom or it's suppliers, or it's technology choices, or the services it provides does not remove the fact that the engineers who resolved today's problems deserve respect.

NealR: Just know that the restoration of todays service loss has been the focus of a very large number of people from all around the world.

Nobody wanted this to happen, nobody planned for this to happen, nobody "messed up" to cause this to happen, we don't have a "fundemental flaw" in our architecture and nobody was wasting time to resolve this issue. This was a serious event that could not have been planned for or tested around to develop quick and simple restoration plans.

Right now all I can do is appologise for the service interuption and praise the engineers who worked out the problem and resolved it.

Until you have been an engineer of a very complex technology that is responsible for the running of a large proportion of NZ businesses, as well as millions of dollars of revenue which when lost affects the pay packets of thousands of people, you cannot understand the preasure today's engineers had to deal with. Whether you like Telecom or it's suppliers, or it's technology choices, or the services it provides does not remove the fact that the engineers who resolved today's problems deserve respect.

NealR: Just know that the restoration of todays service loss has been the focus of a very large number of people from all around the world.

Nobody wanted this to happen, nobody planned for this to happen, nobody "messed up" to cause this to happen, we don't have a "fundemental flaw" in our architecture and nobody was wasting time to resolve this issue. This was a serious event that could not have been planned for or tested around to develop quick and simple restoration plans.

Right now all I can do is appologise for the service interuption and praise the engineers who worked out the problem and resolved it.

Until you have been an engineer of a very complex technology that is responsible for the running of a large proportion of NZ businesses, as well as millions of dollars of revenue which when lost affects the pay packets of thousands of people, you cannot understand the preasure today's engineers had to deal with. Whether you like Telecom or it's suppliers, or it's technology choices, or the services it provides does not remove the fact that the engineers who resolved today's problems deserve respect.