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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 !

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

    Nope. Guess not :(

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

    Perhaps "Cingular" refers to their redundancy plan?

  4. 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....

  5. 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 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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  6. 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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  7. well by mwhahaha · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  8. 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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  9. 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

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