The latest bulletin at the time of this posting - late yesterday afternoon - indicates that the problem is still continuing. Earlier bulletins report that Apple technicians have been trying to determine the cause of the problem.
One result has been a Daily Bruin article grumbling about wi-fi service on campus more generally.**
Blog readers will know that yours truly has grumbled from time to time about how well emergency services will work should, say, the Big One occur. UCLA has been converting its telephone service from landline to VoIP, a service that depends on the internet. The notion that internet will be available in the face of widespread power failures and other disruptions is far-fetched, to say the least.
Frontier, the company that provides landline and VoIP service recently sent out an email with this message:
VoIP customers need to knowYour Frontier VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) phone service, including 911 service will not function without electrical or battery backup power. If there is a power outage, you might not be able to make calls and you should make sure that you have a functioning battery backup for the Residential Gateway (RG) or the Optical Network Terminal (ONT) or an alternate means of calling 911.
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