ATT- Why the secrecy? Why the phone call to say the problem was fixed when it wasn't? Could it be you threw your customers under the bus to protect your stock price while in the midst of acquiring Alltel today?
possible that they pulled the internet killswitch. what's so hard about finding a broken. this isn't a mistake. just look at obama passing cyber security
all isps are gateways for internet access. it's decentralized outside the isp (internet) put centralized to the customer through switches ,poi,dslams,gpon.