Blocking the establishment of connections based on analyzing link failures of access point equipment

A user equipment located in a first geographic location, comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
• in accordance with a dual connectivity protocol, establishing a primary connection to first network equipment to use services enabled via a communication network,
• communicating, to network equipment, that second network equipment is a candidate for a secondary connection to use the services enabled via the communication network, and
• determining that the network equipment has not approved the candidate for the secondary connection, wherein the network equipment did not approve the candidate based on the first geographic location being determined to be within a blocked geographic area, and wherein the blocked geographic area was characterized based on an analysis of connection failures within the blocked geographic area.

A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor of network equipment, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:

• determining that a first connection by a user equipment to base station equipment was not able to be established, resulting in a determined connection failure, wherein the access point enables respective access to services enabled via a communication network;
• based on a result of analysis of the determined connection failure, determining a geographic area associated with the determined connection failure;
• and
• based on measurements collected within the geographic area, categorizing the geographic area as a blocked geographic area.