AT&T data outage in San Francisco?
By Ross Miller 
posted December 11th 2009 8:41PM
posted December 11th 2009 8:41PM
Reports are flying in -- using WiFi, we suspect -- that AT&T's having a bit of a data and SMS outage in San Francisco. Our own personal experiences confirm the data, although text messages are sending and receiving just fine. According to a tweet found by TechCrunch, customer service is saying it'll take anywhere from 24 to 48 hours to fix -- sounds pretty extreme to us, and unfortunately we can't get ahold of anyone to corroborate. Let's put it to you, Bay Area readers, how's that iPhone working for ya?Update: Just got a statement from AT&T. "We are seeing a hardware issue in downtown San Francisco that is causing some degradation in service. GSM and EDGE voice and data services are still accessible. Our experts are aware and working to resolve as quickly as possible. Further resolution is expected this evening." We tried it ourselves and, yep, if you turn off 3G capabilities on your phone (if possible), data will work just fine.
Update: Our 3G data seems to be working now, and you?
there is almost a daily 3g data outage in Baton Rouge, LA
@potatolover Droid does have some nice features, but understand its only going to make the iphone version 4 that much nicer! You think Apple is going to sit back and let Droid steal their hard earned success, I doubt it. Besides, competition is great and the Droid just raised the bar in a lot of respects. But Apple/ATT has sold about 30 million iphones to date.
Side note- I just went to www.speedtest.net and pulled a stellar 2.1mps via 3G sitting in my house! Some land lines can't do that :-P
Is this even news? It sounds more like viral marketing for Verizon/Droid ATT smear campaign.
AT&T went completely out on half of my town (south of SF and Daly City), people think it's cause of the weather or something. D:
ATT: A better 3G experience!