Wednesday, September 3, 2008

AT&T iPhone Data Outage today

It seems that there is widespread data outage affecting iPhone users (and users of other AT&T phones). According to this post in Apple forums:

"There are multiple reports of a widespread AT&T data outage affecting both 3G and EDGE networks. Phones show as connected to 3G or EDGE, but cannot access data. Voice, visual voicemail, and SMS are unaffected.

Reports so far from Boston, DC, Chicago, St. Louis, etc., but given the time difference it's possible that other parts of the country are affected as well. A call to AT&T support confirmed the outage as 'affecting many cities'. A few reports in the Apple Discussions so far, more on AT&T's forum, and at least one blogger's confirmation picked up by Google."


An AP report confirms that:

"AT&T Inc.'s wireless data network was down Wednesday morning in parts of the eastern U.S., according to user reports and the company. AT&T spokesman Michael Coe said the company was looking into the problem, but could not describe its extent."

UPDATE: AT&T says that the problem was caused by routing issues and was fixed by noon.

2 comments:

Roadtrekkin RV Adventures said...

I'd still swap my Instinct for an Iphone :-)

Anonymous said...

I agree. AT&T sucks, but Apple's device is beautiful. Technically this is all AT&T's fault and has nothing to do with the iPhone.

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