Cellphone Networks Survive Inauguration, Mostly

nandemoari writes "Everybody was talking about Barack Obama's inauguration on Tuesday morning, and it showed. According to reports, a number of mobile phone networks faced overload circumstances that day until late afternoon, when the chat sessions finally began to dissipate. Having the most trouble that morning appears to have been T-Mobile, and AT&T also had some difficulty that morning."

All circuits are busy now

[GigaHurtsMyRobot]

Please try first post again later.

Re:You can thank the COWs

[Anonymous Coward]

Q: What did the police man say to the CoW?

A: You're blocking the view of the President. Mooooove along!

(Yes, it's so bad I had to post anonymously out of shame.)

Re:You can thank the COWs

[powerlord]

Seriously, the Cell on Wheels installations were part of what made it possible to handle the extra traffic.

Aha! I didn't RTFA but no doubt the Dept. of Homeland Security was involved in finding all those Cells.

I hope they detained them for further questioning, although I still don't understand why the terrorists were using Heelys [heelys.com].

Re:You can thank the COWs

[gEvil (beta)]

Q: What did the police man say to the CoW?

Mu?

Re:Improving networks

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't care what the Risk board says, Northern Europe is NOT a country.

Re:Improving networks

[R2.0]

Why do people assume it's so easy to magically improve the infrastructure of the entire US? Have you compared the size of America to the size of Europe or Japan? The lower 48 are huge even without including Alaska. I want faster broadband and improved cell phone coverage too but lets be realistic. We're a bit bigger than Japan / insert-random-euro-country-that-we-should-be-like.

Puh-lease. It's as simple as adding a line item in the upcoming stimulus plan. A few billion extra dollars isn't going to break the bank. And it will create jobs - high paying, stable jobs. And it will also help revive our education system.

And, I'll get a pony in the bargain.

Re:Improving networks

[Anonymous Coward]

IIRC, when I modded your comment insightful, I was also being sarcastic.

Re:Improving networks

[ryguy]

So they should build out their network in every city in America to be able to handle an emergency that has 2 million people coming to the area for a 2 day period? That seems logical...