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join:2012-02-09
Oklahoma City, OK | Re: Is it fewer than 6000? I'm in OKC and fortunately haven't had any issues during the past few days. | |
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| tkdslr
join:2004-04-24
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| Only a small fraction of customers have alternate internet access setup and ready to go.. Counting only twitter/facebook complaints seriously under reports the scope and scale of the issue..
I suspect most of U-verse customers in my city are down for the count. I'm getting calls from them, I just had a conversation with one of them a couple of minutes ago..
I'll bet 30 to 50% of U-verse customers are impacted by this mess. | |
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| | | | Re: Is it fewer than 6000? No issues here in Joliet, Il.. Everything is working and has been since day one, so I will say I am lucky I am not impacted... | |
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| | | I work for At&t and alot of the service areas are slowly comeing back up. If the Broadband light is green, but there is no Service Light DO NOT REBOOT THE RG. It will make your service be out longer. And when calling in be nice to the agent its not there fault!! We are lucky to have a job in this economy. I am sorry your Service is OUT, BUT it is NOT my fault. | |
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| |  SeleniaI love DebianPremium
join:2006-09-22
Lanesboro, MA
kudos:2 | Re: Is it fewer than 6000? said by uverse :I work for At&t and alot of the service areas are slowly comeing back up. If the Broadband light is green, but there is no Service Light DO NOT REBOOT THE RG. It will make your service be out longer. And when calling in be nice to the agent its not there fault!! We are lucky to have a job in this economy. I am sorry your Service is OUT, BUT it is NOT my fault.
Whether he is really an AT&T employee or not, please follow this sound advice. I worked in customer service for many years before advancing to a full fledged career. It can be hell even when things are mostly running smoothly. They need this job to feed their families. They did not choose the outage. Most reps at AT&T I have spoken to are nice people that try to help in any way they can within the system they have to operate within, even though some might not be the most knowledgeable. AT&T is a big company and only leaves them privy to so much information. Anything they know outside that they probably researched on their own. Cut them some slack and don't expect them to know everything about the situation at hand and its status. If you want to bitch, e-mail the CEO. I'm sure he'd love to hear from you 
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| | | Outages are affecting quite a few customers in Central Arkansas. My service has been flaky for a few days. It went totally out yesterday. Back on today. Local news is reporting a more widespread outage in the area. | |
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| | Amazing.... If a small provider has a 4 hour outage customers don't think twice about leaving you for one of the big providers. If AT&T has an outage that lasts for days the majority of people will shrug and say oh well and do nothing about it.
A few people will get fired over this, a few things may change to prevent it from breaking like this again but over all it will be business as usual at at&t.
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| | | Re: Amazing.... The problem is there are not enough providers to warrant a change. In many markets, there is a duopoly with very little competition.
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| | | | Re: Amazing.... You are not looking had enough if you can't find a alternative to uverse. | |
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| | | | Indeed. My choices are AT&T and Comcast. My Uverse service isn't down, but even if it was, I'd still stay with it. It'll be a very cold day in hell the day I go back to Comcast. | |
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join:2001-03-25
Galt, CA | Re: Amazing.... not questioning your choice here, i just find humor in the fact that ATT has pissed me off so badly that i will never go back to them and those are the only two choices that i have as well. | |
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| | | | So ATT's got a few thousand customers (who will get their bill proratted for this) out of millions without service. Give these guys a break. You obviously have forgotten what things were like in the broadbans space for customers 10~15 years ago. It was not pleasant. And there's a reason why things have shaken out the way they have.
The late 90's~early 2000's we had a lot of competition and smaller players that which was rife with customer abuse & fraud as these companies were built, financially speaking, on a house of cards.
CLEC's such as Northpoint & Rhythm's went under, as did most of the DSL providers during this period. Some fraudulently racking up customers CC's before pulling (or sometimes after) the plug. Cable wasn't immune either, remember excite@home? | |
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join:2007-04-10
Raleigh, NC
kudos:7 | Re: Amazing.... Many DSL providers went bust (read: run out of business by ILECs -- they "own" the wire, obviously they can undercut you), others were bought out. In the end, [A]DSL is old technology from beyond the dead. AT&T is clinging to their copper with VDSL, but even that's a dead end in the long run.
Financially... every company has stupid billing problems. Verizon is infamous for it, yet they still have millions of customers across multiple business lines. | |
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| | | | | said by JasonOD :So ATT's got a few thousand customers (who will get their bill proratted for this) out of millions without service. Give these guys a break. Give "AT&T" a break? Ha! Not bloody likely!
said by JasonOD :You obviously have forgotten what things were like in the broadbans space for customers 10~15 years ago.
I most certainly have not, having been somebody that had to switch CLECs twice. (Started with Northpoint, was on Covad when I switched to Comcast. Don't recall who came between the two.) Difference is: Back then the Internet wasn't quite as critical to consumers and businesses as it is today. And "AT&T"s outage is taking phone service with it. Would you be quite so forgiving of "AT&T" if that much of their PSTN went tango-uniform? I bet the FCC and local regulators wouldn't.
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join:2007-04-10
Raleigh, NC
kudos:7 | And where are they supposed to go? Cable? Odds are, they left cable for Uverse because the experience sucked. DISH/Directv... aren't ISPs -- or at least not one you'd choose at gun point. | |
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| | | | Re: Amazing.... "Cable? Odds are, they left cable for Uverse because the experience sucked."
One that sucks worse than a 3 day outage?
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join:2007-04-10
Raleigh, NC
kudos:7 | Re: Amazing.... I can't say -- TWC hasn't pissed me off to that point. Sure sounds like that would put them on equal footing -- "they both f***ing suck!" | |
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join:2009-05-06
Charlotte, NC | Not FIRED promoted. If they spent the money on the network that they are going to refund the network would be much better. | |
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| | | | Re: Amazing.... I hear wal*mart has a sale on tin foil maybe you need to stock up.. | |
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join:2007-04-10
Raleigh, NC
kudos:7 | Who said anything about refunds? If history is any indicator, the only people who will get anything at all will be those that have called and complained. Repeatedly. This will *NOT* be an automatic process. (In their logic, they don't know who exactly has been impacted. And it's a "very small percentage".) | |
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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? | |
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|  MJB
join:2012-01-29 | Re: ATT uverse outage 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 | |
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| | jpkjeff
join:2012-02-09
Oklahoma City, OK | Re: ATT uverse outage Yeah, sure they did...to kill only AT&T Uverse customers in a handful of states.
Gotta love conspiracy theorists. | |
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join:2012-01-29 | Re: ATT uverse outage all isps are gateways for internet access. it's decentralized outside the isp (internet) put centralized to the customer through switches ,poi,dslams,gpon. | |
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| said by jpkjeff:Yeah, sure they did...to kill only AT&T Uverse customers in a handful of states.
Gotta love conspiracy theorists.
Conspiracy theorists must be darn close, since none of the corporations or government argue or comment on them, I bet they are 100% correct! | |
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| | | Re: Unhappy AT&T customer said by JoshvanHulst:I am a news U-verse customer as of 01/23/2012 and still my service has not been turned on since I switch over from High-speed Internet Pro speed DSL. I am very inferiorated that they will not sent a tech to come to my property to confirm that my line is not active
Your a customer as of today and you are unhappy because it wasn't turned on, on the same day? | |
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| | | | Re: Unhappy AT&T customer Well this is 2013 | |
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| | | | Yes, my service was supposed to be turned on seemlessly as my homephone & ADSL service was turned off on the same day. They will not send a tech to install the Network Interface Box because they call they need to wait for the outage to be resolved first. | |
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join:2013-01-25
Belleville, IL
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| Re: Unhappy AT&T customer if you were switching from adsl to vdsl it could be as late as 8pm before a tech gets you order, goes to the box and does the wiring to send the signal to your house, its not that "seemlessly" also if you already had pots & adsl you would already have a nid on the outside of your house | |
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| | There is more to it than Att issues, Calm down PPL:::::::::: I am with Direct tv, I signed up for Uverse It was not avalible in my area, So I got the Branch off of Att and that is Direct. On mOnday my service went out. I called & they said it was a natinol outage. My friend has Comcast & her service has been out since Sunday Evening. A man at church said his brother lives in Ky & has insight cable and there service is out due to a network issue. Sounds like something is goin gwrong with the satilites orbiting the eart to me.. | |
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