Do You Know These 8 Startling Outage Statistics?

1. Percentage of all network outages caused by natural disasters: 11%
2. Percentage of network downtime caused by natural disasters: 62%
3. Percentage caused by human error: 49%
4. Increase in telecom repair costs, 1994-2002: 133%
5. 99.5% network reliability rate, in minutes of downtime per month: 216
6. 99.99% network reliability rate, in minutes of downtime per month: 4.5
7. Ratio of how fast a bad reputation spreads to how quickly a good reputation spreads: 24:1
8. Average cost of disruption to wireless service, per hour: $4.8 million

Sources: 1,2,3, IEEE Computer; 4, U.S. Census Bureau; 5,6,7, Telephony Online; 8, Wireless Review