[IP] Update on AT&T EDGE Failures

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>
Date: July 2, 2007 6:51:03 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Cc: lauren@vortex.com
Subject: Update on AT&T EDGE Failures


Dave, more info on the AT&T EDGE outage, on the first business day
after the iPhone activation blitz.

As reported earlier, at least the Central and Western U.S. areas
(including here in Los Angeles) reportedly have been (and apparently
are still being) affected.  Some users have seen sporadic periods of
operation, followed by failures.  In the case of my own EDGE (*not*
an iPhone) unit, I finally had a brief period of full data operation
a few minutes ago (after being down since this morning), but have
now lost the network completely again.

In some cases, users' phones are able to "login" to the network but
then cannot transfer data.  In other cases, the login procedure is
also failing.

AT&T claimed that they "beefed up" the EDGE network in preparation
for the iPhone launch -- but perhaps they used ground beef.  For
those of us who depend on phone data connectivity, this is not a
confidence-building development.

--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein
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Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800
http://www.pfir.org/lauren
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