Telstra’s national mobile network outage was one of the worst incidents of its kind in living memory.

More than 600 calls to Triple Zero [Australia’s emergency number, equivalent to 911 in the U.S.] were not connected, putting lives at risk. Public transport services in New South Wales and Victoria collapsed, causing commuter chaos. And businesses, especially small to medium ones, may have lost millions in revenue.

Making matters worse, Telstra had been warned about the need to ensure that “single point of failure” problems did not cause cascading core network outages.

Now, the Australian Consumer Communications Action Network (ACCAN) is calling for the federal government to introduce mandatory domestic mobile roaming.

But what exactly is domestic mobile roaming? And could it help prevent some of the problems caused by a major outage like the one Telstra experienced?

…

Read the full article on Nspirement

#Roaming#Tech
Add as a preferred source on Google