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by YouWhy 531 days ago
Do we know for certain that a major cause of the failure has been a GSM-R failure?

Industrial grade communication systems tend to be very well behaved in terms of fault detection and management. I'd be very surprised if the whole whack-a-mole dynamic described in the post was a failure mode of GSM-R system per se.

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> Do we know for certain that a major cause of the failure has been a GSM-R failure?

Train drivers lost their voice connection to their control centers.