DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Security & Risk, AT&T
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Two men arrested over copper theft in Lyon County, Kentucky
Follows an investigation into several copper theft reports
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US winter storm causes significant cellular outages in Mississippi, most other impacted states report minimal disruption
More than 10 percent of cellular sites across Mississippi were knocked offline by the storm
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AT&T bolsters FirstNet emergency response fleet in Alaska and Hawaii
Has tripled the total amount of assets available in Hawaii
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AT&T copper vault in LA broken into, Governor Newsom signs copper theft bill into law
Los Angeles leads copper theft incidents for telco
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AT&T offers up cash in effort to curb California copper theft
$20,000 reward for tips that lead to the arrest and conviction of copper criminals
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AT&T won't restore legacy copper service in Forrest Lake, Houston, following copper theft
The theft impacted one customer - AT&T wants to move on from legacy offering
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US carriers working to fix network outages caused by Hurricane Milton across Florida
The Category 4 hurricane has caused widespread outages
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Hurricane Helene causes cellular outages across several US states
Carriers have been working to restore services
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AT&T hit by five-hour outage, blames software issue
The issue has been fixed says the carrier
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FCC details damage of AT&T's February network outage: 92 million calls were blocked
While 25,000 tried and failed to get through to emergency services
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Syniverse blames US carrier roaming outage on "signaling storm"
The company said its global network became flooded with error messages
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Maui County sues US telcos over alleged failed alerts during Hawaii wildfires
Says the telcos didn't act swiftly enough
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IBM avoids $1.6bn payment to BMC over AT&T mainframe court case
Plus Open Text sells app modernization business for $2.25bn
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Deliberate AT&T fiber cut in Sacramento leads to airport outage
Led to flight delays for several hours
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AT&T services resume, company blames "incorrect process"
Confirms it was not a cyber attack
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North Carolina cell tower copper theft suspect faces more charges
The suspect was arrested in early December
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2-week AT&T outage in South Texas hits local businesses after copper theft
No timeframe on fix
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Contractor fatally electrocuted at AT&T facility in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Worker reportedly working on emergency lighting conduit at the time
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Carriers working to restore cell sites in Maui following deadly wildfires
Efforts have been ongoing over the weekend
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AT&T hits back at lead leak report, does not intend to remove old cables in near term
The US operator disputes WSJ's investigation
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AT&T and Verizon accused of ignoring toxic lead cabling
WSJ investigation has found toxic lead underwater, in soil, and on poles
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Ohio man sentenced to prison for damaging telecom towers to "stop aliens from coming"
Will also have to pay $9,130 in restitution
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AT&T agrees to pay SEC $6.25m to end lawsuit
The three execs at the center of the lawsuit agree to pay individual fines of $25,000
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Network operators working to restore mobile services following impact of Hurricane Ian
AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile have all been busy working to restore networks in affected areas
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Level 3 fiber cut in Dallas causes Internet outages in Longview, Kilgore, and Hallsville
Along with issues with Windstream and AT&T connections
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FCC fines AT&T, Intrado, Lumen, and Verizon for 911 network outages
Following a much larger fine for T-Mobile
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Hurricane Ida leads to AT&T and T-Mobile outages across Louisiana
Services returning as telcos deploy mobile cell towers
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Nashville bombing caused fires and floods at AT&T facility
But mobile Edge nodes were brought in to get everyone back online, after the Christmas day blast