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 Poster: A snowHead
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The whole of the communications network including fixed lines, ADSL and mobile phones covering the ski resorts of Val d'Isère, Tignes, la Rosière, les Arcs 2.000, Sainte Foy Tarentaise and Montvalzan was knocked out by a lighning strike last night. The system was down from 11pm to 7.30am this morning. It was impossible to contact the emergency services and the Savoie department mobilized patrols of Gendarmes, Police and fire crews to survey the areas affected...

The outage follows major problems with France's Internet connectivity on Sunday following a failure of a major hub belonging to Redbus in Paris.
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

Scary - lightning and Acts of God I can understand. Is this anything to do with the other strikes ????????
Anything digital is vulnerable to electrical spikes - but the 'fixed lines' should have stayed up - or are they all digital too these days ?????
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 Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

kuwait_ian, My understanding is that the connections between local switches will be digital, yes.

But I would have imagined that there would be redundancy in place through the mobile networks. Clearly not!

Not very impressive! One has to hope that the emergency services have their own, military spec, private network that didn't go down.
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