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What about the Chicago area outage in 1988? The entire area was without phone service for several weeks
by welcome_dragon 3y ago
What about the Chicago area outage in 1988? The entire area was without phone service for several weeks
- joezydeco 3y agoHinsdale telco, 1988. Didn't take out the entire Chicago area but was probably the worst case scenario for a suburban switch. Hinsdale handled the airports, FAA ATC offices, and the emerging mobile/cellular network. Long distance and 411 was down for whole counties. This is a pretty good USENET archive/digest of the event, if you can get past the Web0.1 formatting: http://telecom.csail.mit.edu/TELECOM_Digest_Online/1309.html http://telecom.csail.mit.edu/TELECOM_Digest_Online/1309.html