T-Mobile Germany's network plunged into darkness
By Chris Ziegler 
posted Apr 21st 2009 3:59PM
posted Apr 21st 2009 3:59PM
It seems that large swaths of T-Mobile Germany's network have been down for much of the day today, which -- in our books, anyway -- is as good a reason as any to flip cars and light things on fire (thankfully, though, it seems they've restrained themselves so far). Only voice and SMS are affected, which is pretty cool since there are other ways to text and talk using data alone; that said, it's still a major bummer, and T-Mobile's currently investigating the cause of the outage. Remain calm, everyone -- remember, ganging up on that cell tower and knocking it over only makes things worse, not better.[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
Naturally the confusion of the colors of engadgetmobile caused this problem. you guys should check your firewalls to see if you're receiving all of the traffic that supposed to be going to the towers.
German news agencies are reporting that the reason for the powerlessness was some kind of software error... No official word from T-Mo on this...
The news agencies had a 50/50 shot ;-)
Not to be nitpicky, but you should use the T-Mobile Germany logo instead of the T-Mobile USA one (difference in the dots arrangement).
wow has it gotten that serious?