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Dr.DJ
### German Network Troubles as E-Plus Inches Towards Self-Extinction ###
Germany (gsmag) - German Online newsticker Heise News reported
on Thursday that the first German GSM1800 network, E-Plus had
a complete and nationwide network outage on Wednesday between
3 P.M. and 11 P.M. .
According to the newsticker, E-Plus had attempted to upload
new software, a move ironically designed to improve and
accelerate call connections via the Network - "instead, [the
update] took the network down", says E-Plus spokesperson
Dorothee Wey.
According to newsgroup postings quoted by Heise, the troubles
rippled on through Thursday, but were being downplayed by
E-Plus as "singular" problems.
The network-downing at E-Plus adds to the problematic scenario
the network faces over a lack of transparency over the
committment which E-Plus' current share holders have in the
company. With Vodafone, recently disengaging from the company,
the network's other principal shareholders (chiefly German
utilities) have been notorious for an inconsistent and short
breathed telecomms strategy, culminating in the sale of their
fixed line carrier o.tel.o to Mannesmann earlier this year and
a vow to concentrate activities within the mobile communications
sector through E-Plus.
While the E-Plus network trouble stands out as a unique event
as for the extent of a network outage, other networks have
still not reached a service quality, anywhere close to fixed-line
reliability:
-> Deutsche Telekom's D1 network has regularly recurrent regional
network outages, blacking out entire economic centres of the
country, the last one on record obviously occurring in the
early days of this month in the southern state of Bavaria.
An earlier outage in this region had lead to a breakdown
in the city of Munich "911"/"112" emergency call centers
when users misinterpreted their display message "Emergency
Calls" as an invitation to call their network's customer
service for troubleshooting.
-> Rumors die hard over inconsistency in the D1 SMS-service, de
facto undermining confidence in this service for most monitoring
applications with SMS-based alerts.
In the meantime, all network operators are beginning to feel the
strain on capacity, not substantially alleviated by an apparent
stalemate in Germany's public discussion over the allocation of
new frequencies for G3 services, early in the next millennium.
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