Is your cell phone service down?

[luv]

I like a certain restaurant on Facebook, and they posted earlier that, if you're one of 10 million people without cell phone service, and you go in and tell them the name of your carrier, you'll get 10% off your order.

Then, I overhear an attorney on the phone saying that he and his wife's cell phones both stopped working simultaneously. They're on AT&T.

Anyone else having this problem, or is it just a local thing? Like maybe a cell tower down?

[bevischief]

Originally Posted by Bo's Pelini

Att&t cell service and uverse are down in missouri and kansas.

With uverse down this is on the land line side of the house.

[Wumbology]

Originally Posted by crossbow

Service restored.

Thank god

[Dayze]

may be at the switch level.

I work in building /installing radios and anennas, and converting traffic to fiber /4G; upgrading equipment to new Samsung equip for Sprint (but don't work for Sprint), etc.

[Dayze]

Originally Posted by bevischief

With uverse down this is on the land line side of the house.

yep; if the Local Exchange Carrier was having issues, and or the switch, the it would effect landline and TDM on the cellular side.

[Lzen]

Originally Posted by Rausch

Never have and never will have a cell.

Civilization progressed just fine without them for 4,000 years...

Do you own a car? Civilization progressed just fine without those, too.

[Lzen]

Originally Posted by @KCsporting

I wouldnt own AT&T even if someone else paid the bill. Total trash

Well I don't know if you're talking from experience or something else, but I can say from my experience that ATT cell service has been just fine.

[Lzen]

Although my service has not yet been restored. Perhaps I should try to reboot my phone?

[HC_Chief]

Originally Posted by Lzen

Well I don't know if you're talking from experience or something else, but I can say from my experience that ATT cell service has been just fine.

Fewer dropped calls than Sprint. Ironic, as Sprint's HQ is not too far from my pos.

I loved it when I worked there and my calls would drop as I pulled into campus...

[Rausch]

Originally Posted by Lzen

Do you own a car? Civilization progressed just fine without those, too.

Once cell phones allow you to get laid and carry beer inside them you might have a point.









...even then I'd hate the ****ing things.

[Lzen]

Originally Posted by Rausch

Once cell phones allow you to get laid and carry beer inside them you might have a point.









...even then I'd hate the ****ing things.

Okay, gotcha.

[Deberg_1990]

All cell phone companies have "issues" with service at times
All cell phone companies want your money

/The end

[Dayze]

also Sprint's maintenance window is 1am - 5am when doing anything service/network/customer impacting, as an FYI.

[threebag02]

Mortimer we're back

[ct]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

All cell phone companies have "issues" with service at times
All cell phone companies want your money

/The end

this

and btw, att sucked balls today, but in general, I have no issues with any service outages. definitely an expection, not rule.

[oldman]

Originally Posted by Dayze

also Sprint's maintenance window is 1am - 5am when doing anything service/network/customer impacting, as an FYI.

That's not completely true. It depends on what you're doing. I have "just a little experience" in the field.
As for AT&T's problem yesterday, there's only about 3 things that could have happened and 2 of them are highly unlikely.
Before we get into a disagreement about Sprint having the fewest outages, remember that both AT&T and Verizon have to report all FCC outages, not just cellular. Sprint doesn't serve any landline based customers, but AT&T and Verizon do. I don't remember the exact critera for a reportable outage, but part of it is anything that effects more than 30K subscribers. Sprint does serve some customers for data and such via fiber, but the likelihood for that to fail to the point of an outage reportable to the FCC is pretty slim.