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There were parts of our telecom infrastructure that weren't ready but got fixed before y2k. A certain mobile phone switching vendor (think cell towers, etc.) ra
by kitteh 7y ago
There were parts of our telecom infrastructure that weren't ready but got fixed before y2k. A certain mobile phone switching vendor (think cell towers, etc.) ran tests a year before to see what happened when it rolled over and the whole mobile network shut down (got in a wedged state where calls would fail, no new calls, signalling died). They fixed it and got customers upgraded in time.
- TedDoesntTalk 7y agoI dont think I even had a mobile phone in 1999. Probably not a critical system back then.
- fanf2 7y agoThere were a lot of 2G pager systems used for emergency alerts
- sgt 7y agoI got my first cell phone in 1996. It worked really well (GSM network) and SMS's were available. So I can easily imagine that if you relied on it, it seemed like a critical system to you personally or as a business.
- rospaya 7y agoI was 10 and got my first phone around that time. As far as I know Americans were behind in mobile phones up until the iPhone.