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Technology Stocks : COMS & the Ghost of USRX w/ other STUFF -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jhild who wrote (13101)	2/25/1998 10:17:00 PM
From: Moonray	Respond to of 22053

Just lost my ISP for another half-hour. In case any of you were affected by the first 7 hour blackout, my ISP's explanation: Greetings! As many of you are no doubt aware, BellSouth had a MAJOR problem on Wednesday Feb 25th, during the afternoon and early evening. A primary SS7 signaling switch in Chicago went down and was "uncooperative" when BellSouth attempted to return it to service. As a result, much of South Florida was unable to call certain long distance/800 numbers as well as to connect to our network. This outage affected nearly every business which uses high-speed digital telephone lines (such as xxxx). Supposedly, the problem has been fixed (we certainly hope so!) and everything has returned to normal. o~~~ O