Via Drudge...
ATHENS, Greece - Nearly 50,000 telephones at Olympic sites and parts of Athens went dead for more than 10 hours Thursday, officials said.
"Aris? Aris? Can you hear me now?"
The outage follows a July 12 electricity blackout across southern Greece that raised concern over the stability of public utility networks ahead of the Aug. 13-29 Games.
I had my $ on a strike, but we have the French for that!
The phones went down during attempts to upgrade the system, officials said.
"Some 48,000 fixed-line phones stopped working during work to improve a telephone switching center," Christos Malapanis, an official at the Greek Telecommunications Organization, or OTE, told state-run NET television.
| Upgrades can be tricky, just ask Fred about his server. |
| Fred! You nailed the Greek telephone system too? |
| I confess. It was me. I dropped a line of code, see? And... Poof! No more ringy-dingy! |
Company officials told The Associated Press that sites affected included the Olympic Village, which opened last week, a media village, and four other games facilities. A back-up network kept about half the telephones working at the affected sites, the officials said. OTE and Greece's Public Power Corporation are both Olympic sponsors.
Like Jerry Glanville quipped (my all-time favorite NFL quote) - "It stands for 'Not For Long' if you keep making calls like that!" |