Storm Causes AT&T Outage Across Midwest 213
dstates writes "AT&T left users across several Midwestern states without cellular phone service yesterday. The outage apparently resulted from a power failure at a Michigan switching center and spread to affect level3 Internet communications. The powerful windstorm also left 400,000 users without electricity. Interestingly, except for a few reports in Chicago and Indianapolis papers, AT&T has managed to keep this out of the mainstream media. Widespread communication failures also followed Hurricane Ike in Texas earlier this year. With the increasing trend for users to drop landlines and rely only on cell phones, this is becoming an emergency preparedness issue." Yes this included me. Still does. At least my office still has power — maybe we'll just camp here tonight. :)
Office camping party! (Score:2, Funny)
Camping at the office is a time-honored tradition here in Minnesota, and now that the offices have internet access it's WAY more fun! ;)
Press coverage (Score:2, Funny)
I was going to notify the press, but I couldn't get any calls on my cell phone to go through.
It is easy to keep that out of the news (Score:4, Funny)
They are major advertisers and can pretty much control what is reported about them most of the time. All they had to do was make a few calls... oh wait...
Re:Making AT&T pay... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Making AT&T pay... (Score:3, Funny)
Most people accept corporate overlordship without questioning. Iam not one of them.