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Major Problems with Cingular Network

Posted by michael on from the can-you-hear-me-now dept.

Wabin writes "It looks like the Cingular GSM network is having serious trouble. My phone stopped working today completely, though my wife's was still able to make outgoing calls. Talking to tech support, they claimed some kind of massive failure across the country starting around 4PM yesterday and possibly a virus attack. Howard Forums is all abuzz, but there really doesn't seem to be any hard info. Glad I haven't totally given up the land line yet... redundancy is good."

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  1. rolled over by maddu · · Score: 5, Funny

    Congular rolled over !

    1. Re:rolled over by QuantumFTL · · Score: 2, Funny

      Congular rolled over !

      They also now provide service in central africa.

      You know, cause of the new name.

      Okay I'll just be going now.

  2. Ack! by halo1982 · · Score: 2, Funny

    First power networks, now cell phone networks...PATCH YOUR WINDOWS!

    1. Re:Ack! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      That was funny. To bad that you wasted your turn using your country's only computer to post it.

  3. Can you hear me now? by egg+troll · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nope. Guess not :(

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    1. Re:Can you hear me now? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Appearently you're confusing a broken cingular with a theoretically functional Verizon. I can see how you made such an error; I certainly couldn't tell the difference in performance.

  4. cingular by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Perhaps "Cingular" refers to their redundancy plan?

    1. Re:cingular by Wakkow · · Score: 2, Funny

      If they posted a bit torrent link, this never would have been a problem.

  5. Service completely out... by danielsfca2 · · Score: 5, Funny
    Which is just a tiny bit different than the typical quality of service at Cingular. I would never do business with them. Judging by the way it sounds when I talk to my girlfriend on her Cingular phone, I can just imagine an emergency call:

    Help, Pol...............has a gu............ill us all ........... address is 3 ..........Street....

  6. Re:Can you... by darco · · Score: 1, Funny

    Argh, sorry, must post to kill mod points that I assigned.. I didn't realize this was a redundant post.

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  7. Have you considered using bongo drums... by The+Revolutionary · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...for added redundancy?

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    1. Re:Have you considered using bongo drums... by kfg · · Score: 2, Funny

      Maybe Skinner can train pigeons to play them for triple redundency.

      KFG

    2. Re:Have you considered using bongo drums... by QuantumFTL · · Score: 2, Funny

      Have you considered using bongo drums for added redundancy?



      And if that doesn't work, the customers can always join the Ukrainian Cellphone Destruction Championship.

    3. Re:Have you considered using bongo drums... by devphaeton · · Score: 5, Funny

      Have you considered using bongo drums....

      Can you imagine the mindless din created by a beowulf cluster of bongo drums doing a DDoS attack?

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      do() || do_not(); // try();
    4. Re:Have you considered using bongo drums... by devphaeton · · Score: 2, Funny

      .....in Soviet Russia, Frozen and Petrified by the Siberian winds....whilst you eek out 4.profit! by bongo-spamming the world with images of Natalie Pr0tman one byte at a time?

      Sorry it took so long for me to follow up. My bongo packets were echoing off the walls and causing massive dupes, so i had to move outside.

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      do() || do_not(); // try();
  8. The end of the world is upon us... by Admiral1973 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Cubs win their division and make the playoffs, leading to cell phone outages in the US, power outages all over Italy, and more hurricanes are coming. Better get ready for the rapture!

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    1. Re:The end of the world is upon us... by Hes+Nikke · · Score: 5, Funny

      if i had mod points i don't know if i'd mod you insightful or funny...

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  9. well by mwhahaha · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess it is time to go back to smoke signals...

    1. Re:well by devphaeton · · Score: 4, Funny

      I guess it is time to go back to smoke signals...

      Yeah, but we need to start an RFC for Secure Smoke Signal Protocols. This might require Particle Hopping and encrypted blankets.

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      do() || do_not(); // try();
    2. Re:well by Aceticon · · Score: 2, Funny

      Please no more smoke - it's interfering with the entangled photons on my quantum encrypted flashlight signals.

  10. Cingular... by pspeed · · Score: 5, Funny

    [Wavy lines back to the management meeting long long ago.]

    Marketroid 1: We need to come up with a name for our company.

    Marketroid 2: Yeah, and it needs to be snazzy... catchy... possibly spelled wrong.

    Geek (sweating heavily): Big problem. We can't go live yet, our network has way too many singular points of failure. (A geek with poor grammar, who knew?)

    Marketroid 1: That's awesome! Singular it is!

    Marketroid 2: Or Cingular.

    Marketroid 1: Genious. There's a new BMW for both of us for this one...

    [wavy lines forward to present day.]

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  11. Cingular. It's happened. by questamor · · Score: 4, Funny

    Skynet has become self aware

    1. Re:Cingular. It's happened. by in7ane · · Score: 2, Funny

      If it's running on Cingular's network I wouldn't be worried though.

  12. This is why... by BitwizeGHC · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is why land lines are a MUST when you want to get back out of the Matrix.

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  13. Stupid Carrier... by Aliencow · · Score: 2, Funny

    Errrrr I mean )(/"%*!)( NO CARRIER !

    No carrier jokes never die. They only go offline for a while.

  14. What the message actually is... by mykepredko · · Score: 5, Funny

    You know, that ominous sounding message is actually:

    Help, Polly - your receipe for turkey goulash has a gummy taste to it. Can I double the ingrediants so it will fill us all up? Oops, I've got to go, Bill is complaining that the computer's printer port's address is 3bc and I have to show him how to change it. Oh and you were right, Robert Ulrich played Jim Street in the original "SWAT" TV Show. Goodbye

    myke

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  15. Re:Works here... by Wakkow · · Score: 4, Funny

    Go ahead and post your number here. We'll all test it for you...

    I'm sure a phone slashdotting will help their network out a lot. =)

  16. Re:Crap by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You mean you would date anyone with a dynamic IP address? I always ask the potential female partner for a IPv6 static IP, and if she doesn't have one, well, who wants to deal with sluts anyway.

  17. And therefore... by CGP314 · · Score: 2, Funny

    redundancy is good.

    So does that mean you will be picking up a mistress in addition to your wife?

  18. "Redundancy is good" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    redundancy is good

    Redundancy is good.


  19. Their new slogan... by Tracy+Reed · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Can you hear me YET?"

  20. Re:Sorry, I must say it. by EvilTwinSkippy · · Score: 2, Funny
    The Scene: A police interrogation room. The stereotypical bare lightbulb, and good and bad cop are present. Two suspects in technician's outfits sit across from the officers. Enter the Sprint man...

    First Suspect:You see, I told him to "Stop clowning and see to your work."

    Second Suspect: But I thought he said to "Start downing the Cingular network."

    Sprint guy just shakes his head.

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