From one 0391 to another:
I respectfully disagree. The Bombing happened on the 15th. On the 16th I was on a plane to Boston to try to figure out why many of our customer's systems were still not working (PTT over cellular, Job Ticketing over cellular, RF DAS systems, fiber fed DAS, etc). We had been told by several cell providers that they were being overloaded and this is what we conveyed to our customers. The whole area was a mess for cellular on ALL bands. I worked on this until the 24th, when the brother was captured. By the 26th or 27th, everything had returned to "normal". It was not a case of overload, as I was monitoring the forward and reverse signalling channels of all the major carriers. There were several distinct messages being broadcast over the signalling channels that I had never seen before. These issues persisted continuously 24hrs a day for this entire period. The messaging being transmitted by the cellular providers and the behavior of subscriber devices was entirely different than anything I had seen before, including working several major events where cell systems we overload and crashed. A couple of my installs had direct fiber connection back to the cell providers "switch". At the time, I did not have much experience looking at the data streams from cell site simulators, stingrays, or rogue cell sites. If this was a case of overload, why would the system still be overloaded in the middle of the night? Not 1 carrier attempted to deploy a cow or colt in the area of congestion (which was huge)? Not 1 carrier was able to recover from this condition in 9 or so consecutive days? I drive tested the stuffing out of the area during this time and the issue was spread over a large area. Sorry man, I am not buying it. TT
