AT&T: East coast iPhone data issues solved
Earlier today, many iPhone owners on the east coast (including yours truly) were experiencing data problems with AT&T. Specifically, my data transfer all but disappeared, including web and email, over EDGE. The weird part was that my iPhone was reporting a strong signal. It seems I wasn't alone.Electornista is reporting that the issue affected users from New York to Missouri, Massachusetts and North Carolina. AT&T responded and, as of this writing, it's been worked out. A representative said, "There was a routing issue affecting some wireless data use in the Northeast region ... technicians determined the cause and restored service at 11:56AM EDT."
So, flip on your iPhones, east coast-dwellers. We're back in business.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Ben kessler said 5:42PM on 9-03-2008
You guys really need to get rid of the stock iPhone image with 'cingular' as the network.
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Drew said 6:07PM on 9-03-2008
It did come back up around that time, but has been in and out for me all afternoon. There are definitely still issues going on.
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iPhoneguy said 6:10PM on 9-03-2008
Still not working for me in Boston...
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CaptSaltyJack said 6:16PM on 9-03-2008
Had problems in the midwest, too, actually. Working fine now, though.
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Jerry said 6:21PM on 9-03-2008
Sounds link the situation when you're solidly connected to your wireless accesspoint in your house, but your cable modem isn't connected to the internet.....
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Zippy said 7:16PM on 9-03-2008
At 5pm I called iPhone (orig) to iPhone (3G) in NC to my wife and went straight to VM multiple times or she got no ring and I *eventually* went to VM. Same for her trying to call me. SMS worked though.
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robert said 8:00PM on 9-03-2008
wanted to throw the phone against awall today, phone worked better when i shut off the darn 3G
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Lincoln said 8:03PM on 9-03-2008
Hmmm. I'm still having problems - 8 PM EST in Charleston, WV.
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AT&T Lieing again said 8:09PM on 9-03-2008
Do you really think that AT&T is going to tell us the paying community and the rest of the U.S. what the problem is ?
I for one do NOT and there all corporate mongers and want there money and that is it. Ever since there pathetic signal came back and I can access everything again "VERY SLOWLY" there has been less bars in the same places.
Misleading advertisements and NO communication even the CEO is a BS artist.
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Luke said 8:48PM on 9-03-2008
I had to reset my phone to get it to work on the ride home in DC. After the reset, though, worked fine.
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Amanda Walker said 10:49PM on 9-03-2008
Well, in the DC area I've had data drop out (requiring a a flip into & out of airplane mode to reboot the radio) multiple times well into the evening. I'll believe it's fixed when my AT&T iPhone 3G retrieves mail or a web page as fast as my iPhone 1G retrieves the same thing over T-Mobile GPRS. Not a good track record for 3G data, that's for sure.
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Brian said 8:59AM on 9-04-2008
Data came back up for me last night around 7PM (Boston). It still was a bit sluggish, but this morning 3G seems back to normal. I wish I had called in to get a credit yesterday though...
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David Fell said 9:29AM on 9-04-2008
Wow. I never knew Missouri was on the East Coast before.
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Michael said 6:13PM on 9-04-2008
Is anyone having problems now? Just recently I am unable to make phone calls. Using the iPhone 3G and I am located in NYC.
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