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Time for another Verizon commercial?]]>Mar 26th 2010 8:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/Mar 26th 2010 9:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/This can not be good for their PR]]>Mar 26th 2010 9:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/Mar 26th 2010 10:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/Mar 26th 2010 3:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/Mar 26th 2010 5:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/Mar 26th 2010 6:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/
It's like they're in competition with the US Gov't.]]>Mar 26th 2010 8:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/Mar 26th 2010 9:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/What can you really expect for $400 and $100/month?
This cracks me up because last time I was in SLC my iPhone's GPS told me I was in Seattle. This was months ago. Way to go Apple/AT&T!!]]>Mar 26th 2010 8:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/
Yep, it's 21th century allright.]]>Mar 26th 2010 5:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/I was wondering if this could have anything to do with AT&T's statement about land lines, actually.]]>Mar 26th 2010 5:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/Mar 26th 2010 5:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/
This is ridiculous. There is a two second fix for it...turn off location by GPS. If you do what normal cell phones do, which is locate by tower, then there are no problems. Apple and ATT really are clueless.]]>Mar 26th 2010 11:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/Mar 26th 2010 5:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/
Good old reliable Edge worked fine though. ]]>Mar 26th 2010 5:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/Mar 26th 2010 10:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/Mar 26th 2010 12:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/Mar 27th 2010 4:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/Mar 26th 2010 5:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/Mar 26th 2010 8:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/Mar 26th 2010 8:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/
L.W.: "this one time i called up my GF and want to tell her how good last night was, but for some reason my EX picked up and i was like FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUU!"]]>Mar 26th 2010 10:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/Mar 26th 2010 5:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/Mar 26th 2010 9:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/Mar 26th 2010 5:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/
hate dealing with AT&T failure calls.]]>Mar 26th 2010 5:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/Mar 26th 2010 6:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/Mar 26th 2010 6:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/Mar 26th 2010 6:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/Mar 26th 2010 6:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/http://bj0.org/pictures/IMG_2556.JPG]]>Mar 28th 2010 3:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/Mar 26th 2010 7:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/


... oh yeah, and that whole emergency issue thing is kind of important too, I guess.]]>Mar 26th 2010 7:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/Mar 26th 2010 8:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/
ATT should get a HUGE fine for this.]]>Mar 26th 2010 8:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/they wouldn't care , really.
the gvt would get the fine money.
ATT will pay
then ATT will include that into it's cost, and raise it's prices accordingly.
and if it is their insurance that will pay, then the cost of insurance for that will raise for all operators, same result
so at the end, the customers will end-up paying for the fine.]]>Mar 26th 2010 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/Mar 26th 2010 7:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/
"But then the officers started trying to call from their phones, and they discovered nearly every AT&T phone they tried dialing 911 on was directed to the Seattle dispatch center."

...seems unlikely that nearly every AT&T phone they could find was an iPhone.

Besides, why would the iPhone have a *chance* to have a bug like this? It takes the number you give it, and passes it to the network; the network decides what to do with it.]]>Mar 26th 2010 9:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/You are correct sir.

*I think Engadget censored my earlier comment. Haha, I guess links to info regarding dropped calls from iPhones being Apple's fault aren't allowed. Here's the summary:
"Apparently, in an effort to lower power consumption, Apple
designed the iPhone to stay in touch with the network through heavy
bursts of signaling traffic rather than keep a radio channel open
constantly (keeping the channel open drains the battery). The iPhone
effectively caused signaling congestion problems like dropped calls and poor connection quality."]]>Mar 26th 2010 10:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/Mar 26th 2010 9:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/Mar 26th 2010 1:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/
Hey, I didn't screw it up...don't ask ME to make sense of it.]]>Mar 26th 2010 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/Mar 26th 2010 9:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/Mar 26th 2010 9:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/
I agree with you there, I was just trying to argue why they would not be held liable for a fine. These things happen, I hope they use this opportunity to fix the problem, and learn from their mistakes. If not, then people will just switch to another carrier that provides more reliable 911 service ^_^.]]>Mar 26th 2010 10:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/Mar 26th 2010 10:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/atandt-redirecting-911-calls-from-salt-lake-city-to-seattle-worki/
Anyway I am so sick of AT&T stepping over quarters to pick up dimes. They won't spend and fix they just patch and re-patch. Hey guess what ? Just yesterday the towers went out again. I am using a TracPhone. Yes a TracPhone. A pay as you go service does better than AT&T.

Well today I am leaning towards canceling my two iPhone's unlimited contracts - sending a nasty letter to the boneheads at Apple for choosing them and looking at a Droid. Heck I may even just use something that works - a TracPhone. Sayanorra AT&T - you bite - you really do.]]>Mar 26th 2010 10:21AM