Profoundly Nerdy<p>Is there a good API for monitoring telco outages? </p><p>For context, have a specific use case in mind: outage above a certain size and duration alerts area <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/GMRS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GMRS</span></a> and <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/hamradio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hamradio</span></a> operators. Dual licensed operators then take traffic from <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/FRS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FRS</span></a> callers, who could be anybody. Normal ham radio self organization kicks in from there: local repeaters, <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/APRS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>APRS</span></a>, <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/Winlink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Winlink</span></a>, <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/NTS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NTS</span></a>, <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/RRI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RRI</span></a>, whatever.</p><p>All the public needs to know is "grab an FRS radio and call on X frequency." like REACT back in the day.</p><p><a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/prepping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prepping</span></a></p>