Nine-hour network outage cripples AT&T mobile data traffic
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Beginning at around 5:30 EST on Thursday, AT&T's EDGE and UMTS data networks went down for reasons even now unknown to company technicians.
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By Bob Mims, The Salt Lake Tribune  Feb. 20--Technical woes during ArosNet's move to new offices left about  3,000 of the Internet provider's Utah customers without service over the  weekend.
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AT&T data customers across the country were reporting issues in accessing the EDGE network on Monday, although the company was able to restore service by 7pm Eastern. Technicians continue to work on the problem.
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Tens of millions of internet users across the Middle East and Asia have been left without access to the web after a technical fault cut millions of connections
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AT&T's wireless data network is down in the Midwest and Southeast U.S.,  and BlackBerry and iPhone users are without data services. AT&T said service was expected to be back up soon.
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Karoo boo boo Karoo, Hull's monopoly ADSL provider, has been hit by a major outage today that has forced much of the city's population offline.â¦
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There's a big yellow bar on the Twitter home page today saying it will be down for maintenence betw 10AM and 10PM today. I haven't heard any grumbling about this, but it's worth a bit of a grumble. What other basic form of communication goes down for 12 hours at a time? What if the web went offline for 12 hours at a time? It's unthinkable, because the web is built on the Internet and is decentralized and redundant. A single router or server can go down for a few hours, days or forever, and the web keeps on tickin.  Same with email. If Gmail started having twelve-hour planned outages, as much as I like Gmail, I'd switch. I can't be without email for any extended period of time.  Okay, let's give the guys at Twitter credit -- they stopped being flip about Twitter taking naps or showers. No one likes jokes when a line of communication is down. Now I'd like them to take another step. Assuming these long outages are really necessary, explain to us what they're for. I can take a guess -- something about their database needs changing, and all the data in all the files must be processed to implement the change. Any updates made while such a process is running would be lost, so the server must be shut off. But this is just a guess.  Another guess -- maybe they've hired a scaling expert who needs to make one final major adjustment before these outages are a thing of the past? No one would want to make such a promise, that's offering too much temptation to Dr Murphy, but that would be good news. Maybe Twitter is getting on to solid ground, finally.  It's fairly amazing that there isn't a viable Twitter clone out there yet. I'd also like to see something much more decentralized, based on static files, available to any Twitter-like system. It doesn't seem that far out of reach. With all the scaling troubles Twitter has had it's surprising that there haven't yet been any entrepreneurs willing to enter the space as competition to Twitter.  Users and developers are learning first-hand why centralized systems are so fragile. I'm sure they're doing a heroic job at Twitter, the best they can with what they have, but it's not good enough when the service takes a 12-hour break while many of the humans that depend on it are awake and working.
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AT&T Corp. on Thursday reported a &#36;7.1 billion third-quarter loss due to an &#36;11.4 billion writedown of its assets after its retreat from consumer services and other restructuring charges.
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A national outage affected AT&T's Uverse television service on Sunday, completely knocking out service for several hours, the company confirmed.
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NEW YORK, Oct. 21 -- AT&T Corp. reported a third-quarter loss of $7.12 billion Thursday because of huge charges resulting from the company's retreat from traditional telephone services, which included at least 7,500 more job cuts and a write-down in the value of the company's long-distance network.
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Large swathes of Asia, the Middle East and north Africa had their high-technology services crippled today after a widespread Internet failure that brought many businesses to a standstill and left others struggling to cope.
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(InfoWorld) - AT&T confirmed Tuesday that its online store had been hacked and the credit card information and personal data of up to 19,000 customers possibly compromised. The hacking occurred during the weekend, although AT&T did not say when, resulting in the temporary closure of its online store. The company said it was notifying "fewer than 19,000 customers" about the intrusion, and that it would pay for credit monitoring services to protect both the affected users and further its investigation of the incident. AT&T is still reeling from the investigation of a different kind of privacy infringement -- that of its involvement in assisting the U.S. National Security Agency toÂ monitor the communications of American citizensÂ without a warrant.
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Research In Motion   said on Tuesday it is too soon to determine the cause of a  massive BlackBerry service outage that left subscribers across  the Americas with spotty or non-existent access to wireless  e-mail for about three hours on Monday.
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Research In Motion said problems with a routine upgrade of an internal system appears to have caused the massive outage that left BlackBerry users without e-mail service for hours on Monday.
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Start from scratch Datanet, the UK business ISP, suffered a power outage in of its server racks this morning which crocked its customers' internet access and email for most of the day.â¦
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Internet outages disrupted business and personal usage across a wide swathe of the Middle East on Wednesday after two undersea cables in the Mediterranean were damaged, government officials and Internet service providers said.
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TMobile is blocking Twitter SMS, but users won't notice since the service is going offline for 12 hours on Saturday.