It's being further reported now that even SMS traffic in/out of Metro Boston is being delayed and queued up. Someone on Twitter just reported having received 30 minutes worth of messages in a batch. No other reported outages so far. Cheers, -- jra ----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com> To: outages@outages.org Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 3:59:27 PM Subject: Boston Marathon explosions/outages 672 Copley St near the square, according to Bloomberg; 100 injuries, no confirmed fatalities; much video of the explosions due to live coverage of the race.
It's being reported that iMessage traffic to the area is congested, and iPhone users should disable that for more reliable communications in and out of the city.
No official confirmation these were bombs; the T may have transformers in that area for its subway lines.
More details on Twitter and Zello#Emergency as news progresses; followups to -discussion please, unless they're about specific outages related to the incident.
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-- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274