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T-Mobile Sidekick 2009: The Cloud Data Loss That Nearly Erased Users’ Lives

The 2009 Sidekick outage threatened contacts, calendars, notes and photos after a system failure affected both the core database and backup, forcing a painstaking recovery.

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T-Mobile’s 2020 Nationwide Outage: Routing, Capacity, and a Cascading Network Failure

T-Mobile's June 2020 outage began with equipment trouble and worsened through routing misconfiguration, overload and a latent software flaw, disrupting calls nationwide including tens of thousands of 911 attempts.

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