The AT&T Wireless Data Outage: iPhone Overload?
An AT&T Wireless data outage this morning throughout the eastern U.S. may have been caused by, well, excessive iPhone usage…
"AT&T and iPhone users all along the East Coast – including Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Washington, D.C., and Virginia – are reporting that Web, e-mail, and all other data access is dead, even though their mobile phones are showing '3G' and 'EDGE' icons and full service bars," writes Yahoo's Ben Patterson.
"An AT&T spokesman acknowledged that the network experienced a routing problem that had been corrected about noon EDT," writes Computerworld's Matt Hamblen.
And on the same theme, according to The Dallas Morning News' Andrew Smith, "An 18-page complaint filed in San Diego says that AT&T and Apple have knowingly sold enough iPhones to repeatedly overwhelm AT&T's 3G network. By doing this, the suit argues, the two companies have broken their promise to provide 3G data service inside certain areas to iPhone users."
More here from Wired … more here from Gizmodo … more here from Reuters … more here from Ars Technica … and more here from Macworld.
Tracer said:
Aug 28, 10 at 1:30 amRI voice service & data still down as of 4:30am EST.