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Major Data Outage for AT&T

Posted in Random by Dan at 7:12 am
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Starting last night I received scattered reports that all of AT&T cellular data networks on the East Coast are not operational. This effects both EDGE and 3G data but calls are unaffected.

Following on the heals of T-Mobile botched tower upgrade yesterday a ton of cellular users have been left in the cold.

I have reached out to AT&T for comments but word from users is that AT&T has acknowledged the issue and has no ETA for a repair.

8 Responses to “Major Data Outage for AT&T”

  1. Ted says:

    Wanted to second your report. I (in VA/DC) and my colleague in WV/MD are seeing the same thing. The Edge and 3G networks are completely not working. Hopefully AT&T will acknowledge the issue and release information about what’s going on, or at least when it will be fixed.

  2. DD in NY says:

    Yes, data on my Iphone has not been working since about 6:30am today in NY. Still out

  3. I had my last email synch at 6:53am EDT this morning – in Rochester, NY.

  4. Carl Gundel says:

    Ditto here. No email or web browsing since about 3AM in the Boston area.

  5. Dan says:

    I called AT&T at 11:10 Eastern and I was told the outage was due to the hurricane. I asked which one and she said the one on the eastern side of the US. I said it is not even close to hitting the US yet and she just kept saying that was the problem and there was wide-spread outage due to the weather.

  6. They probably unplugged all the equipment so it wont short out when the hurricane hits! :-)

  7. My email started flowing again at noon EDT.

  8. Chris says:

    I’m in NC and I never really noticed any issues.

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