Curtis,
"...check for the final report. Look at some of the others from 30 days ago."
The first outage which occurred on Jan 3, 2000 was assigned Report Number 00-001. This was an MCI outage, which I'd like to use as an example. The final report for this event was filed within the prescribed timeframe, on Jan 31, 2000.
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This incident only affected 78 circuits. But they were FAA-related services, which made the event a mandatory reportable, despite the fact that the 30,000 subscriber criterion was not reached.
Secondly, and this is really ironic: The cause of this MCI outage was a malfunctioning uninteruptible power supply (UPS). [For a moment this backfiring circumstance reminded me of the redundant router logic problem that we discussed here briefly, yesterday.]
Think of the irony behind that occurrence. In fact, service was restored by "bypassing the UPS" (at one point the report says that the bypass was through automatic means, which throws me, since that would indicate that there was no outage, but anyway...), while the customer supplied generator power during the period that the "bypass" was in effect.
If report number 00-001 by MCI is typical, then it appears that the "preliminary report" is tacked onto the end of the "final report" at the time that the final report is filed. In this case, the preliminary report wound up being page 4 of 4 of the "final report." If I've read any of this incorrectly, or if I've missed something, please correct.
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