- Date
- 2012-02-20
- Kind
- Service_outage
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- communicationinfrastructuretechnology
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
On February 20, 2012, Beaver Island subscribers reported that TDS could not connect to the server serving the island. A follow-up said TDS had recognized the problem as island-wide and was working on it; service appeared to return later that day.
Evidence limits
This is a subscriber and support-contact report, not a provider incident record. The archive does not establish the root cause, precise duration, or whether every customer was affected.
Sources
See the sources block above.
Sources
- Subscribers report a TDS DSL/DSA outage beginning around 10:10 a.m. November 27, quote TDS support as saying a circuit or DSA was down, and report service restored November 28. The thread is strong contemporaneous operational evidence but not a provider incident report.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 05 · t005797
- Subscribers report a TDS DSL/DSA outage beginning around 10:10 a.m. November 27, quote TDS support as saying a circuit or DSA was down, and report service restored November 28. The thread is strong contemporaneous operational evidence but not a provider incident report.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 05 · t005798
- A subscriber asks island users to report the outage to TDS; a follow-up says TDS recognized the island-wide problem, was working on it, and service appeared to be returning. No TDS incident ticket or definitive restoration time is retained.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 04 · t004615
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island subscribers report an island-wide TDS Internet outage, 2012”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-tds-island-wide-internet-outage-february-2012/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Forum, "No Internet" and "Internet is back up!," November 27–28, 2012. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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