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At the same time Softbank's network was also down at the same time in Japan for the same Ericsson issue. The scale is quite surprising.

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Softbank's press release [0] mentions that a total of 11 countries were affected by the outage. I can't seem to find any information on what other countries were affected though.

[0] https://www.softbank.jp/en/corp/group/sbm/news/press/2018/20...

Vietnam's second largest mobile network operator Mobifone was affected for 3 hours[1]. Now we know 3: UK, Japan and Vietnam. I'm sure it's possible track down the other 8.

[1] (link in Vietnamese) https://congnghe.tuoitre.vn/ericsson-xin-loi-ve-su-co-sap-nh...

Wow, Hong Kong's Smartone uses Ericsson and wasn't effected. I am surprised at how wide spread the problem is. How could Ericsson messed this up when the it has the biggest chance to grab business from Huawei.

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