Telstra outage: The night a network decided the year was 2006
A single GPS receiver in a Melbourne chassis came back from maintenance believing it was 2006 — and a national mobile network believed it. What went wrong, and why.
Summary
A malfunctioning GPS receiver in Melbourne caused a major national mobile network to mistakenly revert to 2006, leading to widespread outages. The article investigates the technical mishap and its implications for network reliability.
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