More AT&T wireless outages?
By Ryan Block 
posted Feb 3rd 2008 1:14AM
posted Feb 3rd 2008 1:14AM
We've been receiving a steady stream of tips from users around the country today reporting that AT&T, which supposedly just got back up from some apparent sporadic outages spread across the nation, was (is?) back down again today. We haven't seen or heard much, and have yet to confirm whether things ever even fully came back up at all, but what say you? Still experiencing issues? We'll let you know what we hear back from AT&T -- as you may have heard, we had them build a Batline to Ralph's office for just such an occasion.[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
Having lived in Phoenix for a year, I can say that any outage would go unnoticed as AT&T service was horrible every day.
Everything is running normal for me in Baltimore.
The other day my v3xx was jumping time zones, every few min while it jumped between 3g and edge. my alarm didnt go off im guessing because my phone didnt know what time it really was? anyway I was late for work, thought it was my phone, but its not doing that anymore. im in salt lake, a 3g hub.
My data was out for at least a few hours in NYC, around mid-afternoon Saturday.
Out of data service again; twice in a week.
I'm in metro milwaukee.
Frustrating...
To PHX Dead Zone:
Phoenix is my hometown and yes, AT&T coverage there is pretty bad. Alltel, T-Mob, and VZW all have great coverage there... AT&T and Sprint do not.
just speculating, but with these outages happening all over the us maybe they are finalizing the testing of mediaFLO, since all the reps ive talked to said corporate has been dicking them around about the release date of the Vu
Att sucks in Phoenix so it wouldn't be surprising if there was outage here. Well i guess all those millions att has invested in phoenix wasn't worth it. Now i have sprint and the reception is really good here in Arizona also vzw an altell, Tmobile is kind of spotty though.
Dave,
I couldn't understand how MediaFLO testing could affect their service. MediaFLO runs on a separate frequency and I don't believe is even part of the AT&T network. It's run by Qualcomm and works somewhat like broadcast TV, thus doesn't use the cell network and provides the carriers relief from congestion on their data network.
its wireless tech. theres outages. get over it. theres outages every single day. at&t has an internal map of the us that shows different colors where there are outages. i doubt a day goes by that half the map isnt shaded in. when you have over 50,000 towers its hard to keep them all up and running.
I live in a northwest Philadelphia suburb and work in the city and the funny thing is about two months ago for like 5 days I lost all 3G and EDGE service at my house. I called AT&T like 5 times and they didn't know what was up and said they "notified the appropriate people." The even blamed my phones - a BlackBerry Curve (personal), BlackBerry 8820 (work) and a Samsung SGH-A717 (fiance). Odd how those weird cosmic waves can break 3 phones at once. Anyway - after the 5th day EDGE and 3G came back. No better an no worse than before it went out.