[01-15-13] ATIS<\/b> has observed a significant downward trend in the number of NRSC outage reports filed since November 2011 and that the duration of outages appears to be increasing, according to its NRSC Wireless Outage Study Subteam report issued Jan. 15.<\/p>\n
The Subteam found that 65 percent of the outage reports were \u201csympathy\u201d reports, or outages reported by one or more companies that occurred as the result of problems in another company\u2019s network, and that the leading cause of those outages was cable damage.
\n The Subteam also completed an analysis of keywords mentioned in the non-sympathy reports for both direct and root causes of the outages. \u201cThis analysis identified the causal label Procedural-Service Provider-Other as the number one reason cited for outages across the industry. Further analysis of the keywords contained in the reports of these procedural outage events showed that 88 percent of them contained the words \u2018planned\u2019 or \u2018maintenance,\u2019 indicating that the outages likely occurred during a maintenance window,\u201d ATIS wrote in the report.
\n ATIS notes that as new technology is deployed and consumer demand continues to increase, more planned outages associated with equipment upgrades also may occur. \u201cCommunication providers select the maintenance window based on the measured traffic handled by the specific location in order to minimize subscriber impact. Therefore, in its bulletin ATIS recommends that the FCC consider revising its rules (47 C.F.R. Part 4) on outage reporting requirements associated with planned activity during designated maintenance windows to provide a more accurate depiction of an outage\u2019s actual customer impact,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
[01-15-13] ATIS has observed a significant downward trend in the number of NRSC outage reports filed since November 2011 and that the duration of outages appears to be increasing, according to its NRSC Wireless Outage Study Subteam report issued Jan. 15. The Subteam found that 65 percent of the outage reports were \u201csympathy\u201d reports, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}