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AT&T Edge network outage, January 31, 2008

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Edge is down, at least in Southestern Wisconsin. Spent way too much time on hold to Cingular this morning, to call and “report” it. After being on hold for a bit too long, got a whole $5.00 discount off my bill (whee!). If your edge network is also down, I encourage you to call. Let’s make AT&T’s downtime hurt them, even if just a little bit. They’re certainly not investing profits in improving network speed for us.

I wonder why people on customer-facing support desks pretend that an issue is brand new to them, when it’s clearly a case of a systemic failure on their part.  No, I’m not going to reboot my iPhone, Edge is down.  5 or 6 of us where I work have them, we’re all down.  Yes I’m sure.  No, this can’t POSSIBLY be the first call you’ve taken today about this, just credit my bill.  Sheesh.