No, what makes this "newsworthy" is exactly what Om Malik says: VoIP is being oversold.
http://www.gigaom.com/2005/03/06/voip-has-serious-problems/ - ferg -- Randy Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Amidst all the hoopla w.r.t. "port blocking" their service, >> this outage couldn't have come at a worse time, methinks. >> >> The outage on Friday "left about half of its 500,000 >> subscribers without phone service for about 45 minutes" >> and "... was caused by a glitch with a software upgrade >> on Thursday night." >> >> http://www.detnews.com/2005/technology/0503/07/tech-109316.htm > > Nice story, but it doesn't explain why they had a similar looking outage > at roughly the same time the day before. Maybe it wasn't quite the "first > issue" they've ever had related to software upgrades. of course none of us have ever had customer-affecting 'issues' with software upgrades, system outages, ... that's what makes this so newsworthy randy