AT&T service seems to be down again in Miami
by Justin Horn on Aug 26th, 2011 @ 12:01 pmUPDATE @5:00PM EST And it’s down again, although calls seems to be working better, there is no data.
UPDATE @1:52PM EST Looks like AT&T is coming back online, it’s now working again for me with 3G data and phone calls without garbled audio.
UPDATE AT&T is responding to some tweets now and has released an official statement claming another “equipment issue” is to blame. They also suggest turning off 3G, which did the trick a couple months ago, but is not working for anyone I know this time (see my results below).
@ATT:
@szeliu Yes – due to an equipment issue, but it’s only affecting 3G service. Switching to 2G should help as a temporary solution.
Official Statement (via Miami Herald)
Some AT&T wireless customers from mid-Broward County south to Key West may not be able to make mobile-to-mobile calls or receive calls to their mobile from a landline due to an equipment issue. Only mobile broadband/3G service is impacted; 2G service is not. Network technicians are working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. We apologize for the service interruption.
It was just about 2 months ago when most of the South Florida area lost service with AT&T. Well now there is a new outage, which started sometime around 11:30 AM EST today. Switching to Edge only on the iPhone doesn’t seem to be working the same magic as before. At one point I seemed to be showing “No Service” or “Searching…”, but after switching to Edge only I got 5 bars of signal, but with no indication of network (0, E, or 3G), just the bars.
I was able to get a call out, to Time and Temp, but the recording was so garbled I couldn’t understand what they were saying. Data doesn’t seem to be working on either 3G or Edge.
Even though I can’t call out on 3G and the phone shows “Searching”, the icon for 3G does shows up and I am able to use data…very strange.
I seem to be bouncing back and forth, on either Edge or 3G, between showing just signal bars and no indication of data connection and showing no bars, searching, and a 3G or E data icon. When showing bars only, I can make garbled phone calls. When showing searching for signal, but with the 3G or E symbol I can use data, but no phone calls.
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iCloud beta website goes live, puts to rest silly rumors of no web interface
by Justin Horn on Aug 1st, 2011 @ 6:48 pm
Yeah, the web interface is now live…check it out. This is still beta, so I’m sure it will grow to manage the iTunes media (music, apps, movies, TV, etc.).
UPDATE Some pretty cool website work here by Apple, resizing the browser window automatically re-sizes and moves icons to fit in the window.
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