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		in0v8r 5 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 5 days ago [–]

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

madcaptenor 5 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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