Anyone Experience the AT&T Outage?

Posted by | 07/29/2009 | 19 Comments

AT&T LogoReports this morning are that AT&T suffered a massive connectivity outage through the U.S. northeast and midwest. I noticed my iPhone wasn’t getting a signal at one point this morning, but I was at home and on wifi so it didn’t affect my routine. Still, other people suffered and this has been a recurring incident. This tweet from BestFoodBlogEVR reminds us we can encourage AT&T to not let it happen again.

It took the AT&T rep 25 minutes to finally tell me that there’s an area-wide EDGE/3G outage. At least I got a $25 credit (you have to ask).

A $25 credit x however many customers they have in the northeast and midwest sounds like strong encouragement to me.

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  • Butch

    Asheville, NC
    No service at all last night and only intermittent service this morning(dropped calls, no service, one way links). Looks like the 3G system for AT & T isn’t ready for prime time yet.

  • slfashe

    I am having consistent problems with my AT&T service. I have no signal frequently now at my house in West Asheville. I live 1/4 mile from the AT&T store. Plus, calls at my office downtown often don’t ring. They keep going straight to voice mail. It’s getting really old.

  • Andrew

    Seems like something went down with AT@T in flint michigan today at least 5 people in the area I know of can’t use the service

  • Dave

    I’m having prolems on the FL panhandle…ever since yesterday at around 6pm my iPhone is useless unless I turn 3g off! I still have full bars and a 3g symbol when it’s on, but it auto disconnects calls and will not allow any data transfer. Edge is working fine.???? CD says no outage….I don’t believe them.

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