On Sat, 26 May 2001, Roy wrote:

The event made at least the radio and probably the print media. The big uproar was because "many ATMs stopped working". I guess that puts the Internet in its proper place in the scheme of things.

I did notice the number of "subscribers" affected was below the important 30,000 reportable FCC outage level. The last report I saw was fewer than 22,000 customers affected, and I haven't seen any FCC outage report show up on the FCC web site about the PacBell problems. Wells Fargo said on average 5% of its ATM machines are out of service, and they didn't see anything out of the ordinary yesterday. 9-1-1 automatic location identification (ALI) service was also affected, although the calls themselves connected without problems.