AT&T data outage today? (Durham, Cary: bankrupt, income, bars) - Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Cary - North Carolina (NC) -The Triangle Area - City-Data Forum

StoneOne · 11-23-2009, 06:16 AM

Anyone else with an AT&T smart phone experiencing a data outage today? Phone service seems to be fine, although data's not working. Just curious whether this is a local Triangle thing or whether anyone's heard anything. Getting through to AT&T isn't quick...

joe530 · 11-23-2009, 06:50 AM

I'm experiencing the same problem. Phone works well, I just cannot connect to the internet. Email does work, I just received one.

This is the msg posted on their website:

Quote:

Important Service Message: Some customers in your area are currently experiencing difficulty when attempting to access the Internet from their devices. We are working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible and apologize for any inconvenience.

Hopefully it gets resolved quickly

gobirdz27 · 11-23-2009, 07:29 AM

Same thing here in Cary and Durham. 5 bars but no 3G or Edge symbol (and no data connectivity)

T|K · 11-23-2009, 07:53 AM

Data is out in most of NC and SC.

DanielleNC · 11-23-2009, 07:57 AM

I'm not having any issues.

Stone_Sculpture_Artist · 11-23-2009, 08:41 AM

Yes, no signal in 3G, AT&T stinks! They would have long ago been bankrupt if not for the exclusive rights to Iphone

T|K · 11-23-2009, 09:08 AM

Working again for me now. 3G and all.

poster · 11-23-2009, 10:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Stone_Sculpture_Artist

Yes, no signal in 3G, AT&T stinks! They would have long ago been bankrupt if not for the exclusive rights to Iphone

Huh?

AT&T with NET income (that's profit) of over $10,000,000,000 (that's 10 Billion dollars) would be bankrupt if it wasn't for the iPhone?

If the iPhone never existed it wouldn't effect AT&T's bottom line even one percent.

geoff2v · 11-23-2009, 11:05 AM

Came back on about the same time for me as for T|K. (Ironically, it started working immediately after I got off the phone with AT&T asking about it.) 3G was out, but Edge worked the entire time, though.

StoneOne · 11-23-2009, 11:12 AM

Working again for me now. My wife has a Blackberry with only EDGE, and she didn't have any problems this morning. Glad to hear it wasn't just my iPhone!

AT&T normally works fine for me here in the Triangle, but it's terrible when traveling. In rural areas it's spotty at best! Lately, I've been doing a lot more traveling to NYC, and even in Manhattan the number of dropped calls is absurd!!!

Once iPhone goes to Verizon, I'll almost certainly switch. If it doesn't, I might be looking into other devices when my contract is up...