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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq
Yes but a simple "If you are calling about the current service outage, we're aware of it already" would massively reduce the number of support staff required.
And a lot of sites have a "backup" high volume, low complexity system for reporting major outages - e.g. reverting to a single line of text instead of failing completely.
Having a contingency plan to deal with major outages is all part of being a major service provider.
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Actually I was getting a "Site too busy" response from Cable Forum most of the time while VM's own forums were slow, but functional.
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The phone lines couldn't cope with the amount of attempts to call, so failed before they could connect. There was a service message applied as soon as the outage was identified.