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Storm Causes AT&T Outage Across Midwest
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. :)
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! ;)
"Christ what a design! I could eat a handful of iron filings and PUKE a better emergency pump than that!"
I was going to notify the press, but I couldn't get any calls on my cell phone to go through.
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...
Most people just say IANAL (I am not a lawyer). Instead of proving it so dramatically as you just did.
Most people accept corporate overlordship without questioning. Iam not one of them.
"Doing what i can, with what i have." ~ Burt Gummer