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AT&T is having more hang-ups than a Christmas tree lately (figurative and literally). The company’s network has experienced outages most of the week and is supposedly down again according to Engadget. Any of you having problems?

We've been receiving a steady stream of tips from users around the country today reporting that that AT&T, which supposedly just got back up from some apparent sporadic outages spread across the nation, was (is?) back down again today.
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How does such a company recieve massive outages such as this :confused:
 
No problems in San Augustine, TX (East Texas) with AT&T Yahoo Dsl Pro...

Maybe people are angry at AT&T THINKING about watching ALL the traffic :D
 
I work at AT&T XD

I see all the outages. I tell you what they are for too....Updating phone lines and the weather certain other things sometimes get damaged during storms that I am not supposed to tell you. It could also be regular maintenance too. The hard thing is trying to shift people around so people don't get a drop in speed and to grow. I know someone else here is ATTIS STS (AT&T Internet Services Second Tier Support) either that or I am very alone.
 
This isn't a recent phenomenon though. AT&T/Cingular has been kicking my Blackberry off line more than I can count in northwest Indiana and Chicago. If I had a dime for every time I see "No Network Available" or "Data Connection Not Allowed" written across the top of my Blackberry, I'd retire now.

I think it's been happening more frequently since AT&T bought out Cingular.
 
We have not experienced any problems with AT+T in Southern New England, but then again, I only use them as my cell carrier. :cool:
 
Mr.Pickles said:
I work at AT&T XD

I see all the outages. I tell you what they are for too....Updating phone lines and the weather certain other things sometimes get damaged during storms that I am not supposed to tell you. It could also be regular maintenance too. The hard thing is trying to shift people around so people don't get a drop in speed and to grow. I know someone else here is ATTIS STS (AT&T Internet Services Second Tier Support) either that or I am very alone.
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a very informative post :cool:
 
Azhar said:
This isn't a recent phenomenon though. AT&T/Cingular has been kicking my Blackberry off line more than I can count in northwest Indiana and Chicago. If I had a dime for every time I see "No Network Available" or "Data Connection Not Allowed" written across the top of my Blackberry, I'd retire now.

I think it's been happening more frequently since AT&T bought out Cingular.
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You mean.... Since SBC bought out AT&T(which already gave them a majority stake) and then aquired BellSouth to gain complete control of Cingular?? :D;)
 
At first I thought this was related to U-Verse again. I'm like, uhh.. I can't say I've seen any major outages. It's usually Texas that goes down. :confused:

But seeing as this is wireless, no outages in SE WI, and I never have any problems here.
 
Well since i always have a NO SERVICE message on my phone i wouldnt know about the outage.
 
we were having problems with our ATT phones the other day. Losing connecting no connection etc... but we thought it had something to do with the hella windstorm that came through and damaged the cell towers in our town.



A house down the street blew over 50mph winds FTL
 
Here in Chicago it was not AT&T but RCN that was out all morning. All of the Chicago RCN customers were down Internet, phone and cable. Is it me or have there been an abnormal amount of outages AT&T, RCN that outage in the Middle East. Normally I can see outages but these are major ones all seeming happening within days of each other.
 
its been very slightly flaky in east texas area. every once in a while it will hit me with a 404 but honestly it hasn't been that bad.
 
AT&T DSL (we have our own subnet) here in NorCal, has been having sporadic outages for the last couple of weeks. :mad:
 
lol, how does this happen you ask? Because most of the country is probably still running on lines and equipment from the 60's and 70's. :p I know my area is. I had to go with digital phone through my cable for the land line because regular phone through AT&T is so bad, and there's no other provider.
 
Mr.Pickles said:
Ameritech
Pacific bell
Nevada bell
Prodigy
Flash
SNET(Eastern bell)
Wans


I know I am forgetting a few
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I know there are 9 or 10 that are included in it. swbell, ameritech, and sbcglobal are the other ones that i know you're forgetting for sure.
 
Again we have a fine example of Government deregulation pooching a system that is basically straight forward.

The first reactions were:

http://jkontherun.blogs.com/jkontherun/2007/11/verizon-wireles.html

Sprint, once known as the pariah of the Cell business is now doing deals behind the scenes with Verizon, first for data services, then who knows.

I can’t begin to tell you the number of people I know personally who dropped their ATT/Cingular contracts because it’s become one huge fiasco.

In case you missed the obvious, count on your cell phone bills going up in price and your home data plan taking the same direction.

If free enterprise had been left alone I’m pretty sure things would be much better.
 
NorCA here.

No problems *CLICK*



(sorry it was too easy of a joke to make)
 
I FREAKING HATE AT&T....my phone and internet has been out for two days!!!!! (using free wifi from mickyd...and guess what came in the mail today.........A 90 DOLLAR BILL FROM THEM!!! :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

TO HELL WITH AT&T!!!
 
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