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		in0v8r 44 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Verizon outages reported across U.S. The alternative network reports are most likely people trying to call Verizon customers and reporting an outage when they can't get through.

eob 44 days ago [–]

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

madcaptenor 44 days 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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