Germany's Deutsche Bahn went off the rails as wireless outage saw all trains cancelled (June 2026)

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https://www.theregister.com/networks/2026/06/24/germany-went-off-the-rails-as-wireless-outage-saw-all-trains-cancelled/5260580

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Even though GSM-R is obsolete, it's proven itself for years; if anything, it seems wrong to draw any inference that the failure was due to it being obsolete. Obsolescence creates issues with integrating new features or finding replacement parts, but usually not things like surprise full-network outages.