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Friday, 16 November 2007 |
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New research, perhaps biased, highlights the mobile industry’s failure to stay on top of network outage issues. Plus an unfortunate gun-related text message in Norway.
Mobile networks, increasingly positioned as a multimedia distribution channel, are inherently faulty and unreliable. That’s the verdict of UK-based Actix, a network optimisation and performance engineering specialist.
It claims that “network engineers in a typical tier one mobile operator manually handle around 4,000 network issues every single month - but only have time to fully investigate and solve around 150 [3%] of them. The lack of enterprise-wide Network Status Management systems is leaving network engineers struggling to prioritize tasks due to a lack of visibility into the performance of the whole radio network, Actix found.
It continues: “one major mobile network stated that around one million category one faults are registered every single day, while smaller networks have revealed figures of around 600,000 a month.”
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Meanwhile, AP reports that Leif Ersland of Norway got into trouble over a text message sent to a pal from whom he had borrowed a nail-gun, saying he had ‘left the gun on the cabin steps’. Sadly he sent the SMS to someone other than the nail-gun’s owner, who informed police, who went to interrogate the suspect’s flatmate for 45 minutes in view of some form of gun-running deal. It was later dismissed as an errant text message and a mistake.
It’s Friday. This sort of stuff is good. Nail-guns, on balance, are bad. But they might soon be incorporated into today’s all-singing all-dancing mobile devices.
Jim Chalmers
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