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Verizon Wireless Data Outage? Is It Over?

by the BerryReview Team on Jan 8th, 2009 at 4:01 pm EST
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Looks like Verizon is experiencing a data outage now on the east coast. Problems with BlackBerry Data, SMS, & PIN. Thanks to Tom and others for sending it in.

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

  1. Posted by: DavidB
    January 8, 2009 at 5:40 pm EST

    No outage here in Northern Virginia.

  2. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. Posted by: Tom
    January 8, 2009 at 7:56 pm EST

    So much for “It’s the network!” ;)

  9. 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

  11. Posted by: dima
    January 10, 2009 at 1:24 pm EST

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

  12. 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.