OT: What is going on at Ameritech/SBC?!

In the referenced message, Los, Ralph said:

Greetings,

From the home-office DSL question pool:

What is going on with the Illinois & Ohio markets?! I have internet access, sort of. I can traceroute to some places, but more often than not, no. I can't get to any web pages, or anything...select sites (www.usps.com for example) works....but it's rare to find another working site.

Can someone from SBC or an Engineer answer this?

My technical analysis has determined: pizeo-electric interference cf also, http://www.nanog.org/endsystem.html You probably will find it easier to get outage information specific to you by calling SBC's customer care.