Richard Lawler
Syniverse blames global roaming outage on a “signaling storm.”
Last week, an outage disconnected wireless customers trying to use international roaming, and now we know why,
Syniverse says the problem was not a cyberattack but a “misconfiguration” that flooded its network with a near-infinite loop of error messages. Things are finally back online, and AT&T says it will credit customers for the days — but we haven’t heard more from T-Mobile or Verizon.
