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Sep 03, 08 - 01:06 pm Comment from: HMCIV

I smell a LAWSUIT!!

i think they sold (and activated) the iPhone that broke the camel's back

Sep 03, 08 - 01:07 pm Comment from: TowerTone

Let's hope it had a chaperone, or we'll all get screwed....

So whoever said the iPhone wont loose service like the blackberry is full of it. iPhone is walking that same path.

Sorry, that was lose service... my bad.

Well that is sort of good news for me. I thought my iPhone was having problems.

I wonder if someone is out there playing denial of service games. There was some kind of major outage with Verizon, Monday morning.

Sep 03, 08 - 01:17 pm Comment from: Spark

DUN-DUN---DUN-N--N-N-N! !!

Cue the drama and knashing of teeth! OMG, iPhones affected!!!

What no Nokias on the ATT network?

Sep 03, 08 - 01:19 pm Comment from: Metryq

@Rob, the report states that the outage was in the eastern US. When the Blackberry server goes down, they all go down.

The chairs in Redmond are happy for once!!!!

Sep 03, 08 - 01:29 pm Comment from: thethirdshoe

@Rob

Here in OKC, my iPhone is/was working fine.
When Rim went down, the whole country was down.

Sep 03, 08 - 01:31 pm Comment from: thethirdshoe

@AppleJack
It's just the military testing the new kill switch that they forced the telecos to install.

"The differences between AT&T;, Verizon Wireless, Sprint and T-Mobile."

Here's another one.

Sep 03, 08 - 01:39 pm Comment from: jtc

@Spark
And what about the blackberry's??? or even the palm treos!!?? though they are kinda extinct at this point...

Just checked mine and email and web is working again.

You are welcome.

From the "MacDailyNews Reader 'John M.'"

Sep 03, 08 - 01:53 pm Comment from: Crazylegs

What? I am on ATT in DC and I didn't have a problem. The issue was with iPhones only. My blackberry never lost its data connection.

Rob,

ALL AT&T;Data services were out. Blackberry, palm, windows mobile, even regular phones with data service, it didnt matter.


iphones Activsync exchange integration is a direct link to the email server, blackberry has a go between, which is what went down during the black berry outage. That is what was talked about how the iphone is "superior"

your statement is void.

Sep 03, 08 - 01:55 pm Comment from: Crazylegs

hmmm, from the full article link:

The outage affected Web surfing and e-mail. Most of the outage reports came from iPhone users. Voice calls, text messaging and BlackBerry e-mail access still worked, Coe said.

Here in Denver, we didn't go down.

It would be great if Apple supplied a network app for the iPhone that we could use when we wanted (or randomly on it's own) to supply both Apple and the carrier live feedback.

A kind of "Can you hear me now" app. Could head off some problems and let them know when to get after the Apple carrier partner about poor or dead reception regions.

They are OS X computers and would make great automated field data devices.

Oops. Sorry guys. Should have consulted underground services before I dug that hole....

Sep 03, 08 - 02:59 pm Comment from: Doc4i

The reason for the big fuss when iPhones are affected this way( and not Nokia etc) is that iPhones are the only ones that matter.

Sep 03, 08 - 03:12 pm Comment from: MobileAdmin

Do you realize how many outages occur any given day? I get alerts from all our carriers and it's a constant thread throughout the country.

http://www.dataoutages.com is a great site to check for these.

Here in DC it was out from around 9 AM until around 11:30 AM.

Sep 03, 08 - 04:19 pm Comment from: Anonymous©

Now I know what happened. I couldn't get connected as I drove from Delaware down to NC, this morning. I showed strong 3G as well as strong EDGE when 3G wasn't available, and yet, no internet. Actually, that was the error message I got, something about "internet server". I must have rebooted my phone 3 times.

Sep 03, 08 - 05:37 pm Comment from: TowerTone

well I'm in Texas today and the only problem I have now is the GDam
Mms web page at ATT won't open. I hate texting but it's my bday and I keep getting text that I can't open. Probably nekked girls. Thanks Apple.

Sep 03, 08 - 05:56 pm Comment from: Gunboat Smith

Meanwhile, Verizon Wireless users were NOT affected by this outage...

Since the 2.02 update I haven't had decent 3G service from AT&T;. Since the down time it has been fan friggin tastic.

I think AT&T;did it by accident but fixed half of their 3G issues at the same time.

yup, out for me this morning in NJ. Came back on about noon.

Nothing is perfect... and humans will also have to learn to live without technology sometimes...

@TowerTone

I'm in Houston. Somewhere between 3-4PM, I lost all EDGE connectivity.