12 Comments to “Verizon Wireless Data Outage? Is It Over?”

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   Posted by: DavidB

   January 8, 2009 at 5:40 pm EST

   No outage here in Northern Virginia.
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   Posted by: Tom

   January 8, 2009 at 5:52 pm EST

   Appears to be up and down… I drove from Upstate NY to Baltimore today, and I lost data services somewhere northeast of Philadelphia — data services came back for a short period of time (minutes), and now they are back down here in Baltimore.
3. 

   Posted by: Ben Pike

   January 8, 2009 at 6:05 pm EST

   Here in the North Eastern part of Alabama I did notice my EVDO disappear for a little bit while driving through a rural area, but no data outages.
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   Posted by: Tom

   January 8, 2009 at 6:13 pm EST

   I spoke too soon — I rebooted my 8830, and all data services appear to have returned to normal.

   FYI, while things were down, the homescreen displayed “1x” instead of “1XEV”. Affected services included BIS, BES, web browsing [all phones, not just BlackBerry], picture messaging [all phones], Mobile Web, tethering, etc. — SMS still worked as normal.
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   Posted by: grinch

   January 8, 2009 at 6:40 pm EST

   It is over for the time being. It was caused by a cut fiber link in Boston. It has since been routed around while repairs take place.
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   Posted by: DavidB

   January 8, 2009 at 6:41 pm EST

   SMS would if phone service is still up. SMS uses a CDMA control channel, not EV-DO data.
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   Posted by: JEF

   January 8, 2009 at 7:07 pm EST

   Ok…This explains things. Guess that I wasn’t the only one to have problems.
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   Posted by: Tom

   January 8, 2009 at 7:56 pm EST

   So much for “It’s the network!”
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   Posted by: John

   January 8, 2009 at 10:08 pm EST

   Okay here in Western PA. Never lost data all day…
10. 

    Posted by: Kenny

    January 9, 2009 at 12:09 am EST

    No loss in NYC
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    Posted by: dima

    January 10, 2009 at 1:24 pm EST

    Didn’t notice any outage here in boston, must have been very short.
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    Posted by: chrissy

    January 14, 2009 at 9:16 am EST

    Ever since this outage I’ve been having data problems here in Baltimore. I get 1x and 1xevdo for at least an hour a day. In store vzw reps are idiots and customer service is a joke when they don’t understand what you’re saying and do not speak English. Full power down and battery pulls temp fix but what’s the point in paying this ASStronomical bill when it seldom works and is often unreliable at best.