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Storm Causes AT&T Outage Across Midwest

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the guess-who-this-includes dept.

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. :)

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  1. Isn't it wonderful... by GuloGulo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "That clearly provides for a collective right and doesn't apply to the states..."

    Seriously though, isn't it wonderful anti-gun nuts can't even make that weak argument anymore.

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    "The government grants you rights, not the other way around."-- beav007. Yes, these people really exist...