China SMS - Partial degradation of Pre-Registered brands

Incident Report for Vonage API Status

Postmortem

Date/Time Impacted

Between July 03, 2023 16:23:00 UTC and July 04, 2023 03:36:00 UTC

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Services Impacted

Pre-registered transactional traffic towards all China networks

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Summary

Vonage’s downstream local supplier binding started disconnected, all pre-registered transactional traffic across all China networks failed to submit to our supplier from 16:23 UTC 03 July. Normal service  was restored at 03:36 UTC 04 July. 

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Root Cause

Database of our supplier was upgraded causing their SMS platform to be disconnected. 

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Restoration Actions

Our supplier modified the offline report synchronization mechanism to restore service to their SMS platform.

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Next Steps

Our supplier will avoid renewing the system at night to shorten the disconnection time.

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Posted Jul 12, 2023 - 01:17 UTC

Resolved

This incident has been resolved.
Posted Jul 04, 2023 - 05:09 UTC

Monitoring

A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
Posted Jul 04, 2023 - 04:06 UTC

Investigating

Please be advised that we are observing partial SMS delivery degradation for pre-registered brands towards China.

We are working with our carrier partners to resolve the issue and will issue an update as soon as more information becomes available.

Please contact support@api.vonage.com if you have any questions.
Posted Jul 03, 2023 - 17:43 UTC
This incident affected: Global Connectivity (SMS APAC).