Posted By: DukeCigars
Phone outages last week - 02/25/24 11:49 PM
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The initially said “solar flair”. Nobody believed that horseshit so now they came out with a new answer
The vulnerability of the networks…glad we’ve got HAM radios!
Phone outages last week
The initially said “solar flair”. Nobody believed that horseshit so now they came out with a new answer
The vulnerability of the networks…glad we’ve got HAM radios!
Posted By: Lazyjack
Re: Phone outages last week - 02/25/24 11:59 PM
Hmm... Is this is the "official" explanation?
Posted By: DukeCigars
Re: Phone outages last week - 02/26/24 12:01 AM
Originally Posted by Lazyjack
Hmm... Is this is the "official" explanation?
Yep. AT&T texted me with an arbitrary apology and a link with an explanation, that’s what was on their site
Here’s the link they provided, which is where I got that screenshot
https://www.att.com/makeitright/
Posted By: ntxtrapper
Re: Phone outages last week - 02/26/24 12:32 AM
You could always switch to Verison, come to my ranch, and it say "No signal" all the time.
Posted By: DukeCigars
Re: Phone outages last week - 02/26/24 12:33 AM
Originally Posted by ntxtrapper
You could always switch to Verison, come to my ranch, and it say "No signal" all the time.
Ha!! Funny, I commonly don’t have signal in 1 of my 2 hunting blinds…I’ll let my wife know when I go to the no signal blind and I sometimes go there just to make sure I can’t be reached
Posted By: kwrhuntinglab
Re: Phone outages last week - 02/26/24 01:52 AM
People want to gripe, but it's technology, it is bound to fail at some point. We act like it's the end of the world, but I remember the days of pagers and finding a landline to make a call.
Posted By: Paluxy
Re: Phone outages last week - 02/26/24 01:59 AM
Yeah, a cashless digital system would be great...
Posted By: ntxtrapper
Re: Phone outages last week - 02/26/24 02:02 AM
Originally Posted by kwrhuntinglab
People want to gripe, but it's technology, it is bound to fail at some point. We act like it's the end of the world, but I remember the days of pagers and finding a landline to make a call.
When I started my career I had a smart beep pager and a pocket full of quarters. Every informant had my beeper number.
Posted By: BradyBuck
Re: Phone outages last week - 02/26/24 02:32 AM
I noticed it but was barely an inconvenience and nobody that I’m aware of panicked. Talked to a few people and the reactions were just “meh”…
With WiFi you could still text, get on the internet etc.
With WiFi you could still text, get on the internet etc.
Posted By: Lazyjack
Re: Phone outages last week - 02/26/24 04:54 AM
Originally Posted by ntxtrapper
Originally Posted by kwrhuntinglab
People want to gripe, but it's technology, it is bound to fail at some point. We act like it's the end of the world, but I remember the days of pagers and finding a landline to make a call.
When I started my career I had a smart beep pager and a pocket full of quarters. Every informant had my beeper number.
When I stated out, my pager squelled like an injured rabbit and I a pay phone cost a dime.
Posted By: Lazyjack
Re: Phone outages last week - 02/26/24 04:57 AM
Originally Posted by DukeCigars
Originally Posted by Lazyjack
Hmm... Is this is the "official" explanation?
Yep. AT&T texted me with an arbitrary apology and a link with an explanation, that’s what was on their site
Here’s the link they provided, which is where I got that screenshot
https://www.att.com/makeitright/
That was ment to be TIN HAT humur. Guess my timing was off.
Posted By: ntxtrapper
Re: Phone outages last week - 02/26/24 05:22 AM
Originally Posted by Lazyjack
Originally Posted by ntxtrapper
Originally Posted by kwrhuntinglab
People want to gripe, but it's technology, it is bound to fail at some point. We act like it's the end of the world, but I remember the days of pagers and finding a landline to make a call.
When I started my career I had a smart beep pager and a pocket full of quarters. Every informant had my beeper number.
When I stated out, my pager squelled like an injured rabbit and I a pay phone cost a dime.
Mine squealed too but southwestern bell changed coin phones to 25 cents in 1995.
Posted By: Lazyjack
Re: Phone outages last week - 02/26/24 01:02 PM
Originally Posted by ntxtrapper
Originally Posted by Lazyjack
Originally Posted by ntxtrapper
Originally Posted by kwrhuntinglab
People want to gripe, but it's technology, it is bound to fail at some point. We act like it's the end of the world, but I remember the days of pagers and finding a landline to make a call.
When I started my career I had a smart beep pager and a pocket full of quarters. Every informant had my beeper number.
When I stated out, my pager squelled like an injured rabbit and I a pay phone cost a dime.
Mine squealed too but southwestern bell changed coin phones to 25 cents in 1995.
Oh. My injured rabbit was from mid 70's. I should have added, with our dime, we called an local answering service and spoke to a live person. LOL. By '95, I had a smart beeper and pay phones were a quarter.
However, after dark, the drug dealers used many pay phones as an office and didn't mind telling you so. So, I had a cell phone in the truck. It was a bag phone. Still have the same number.
Posted By: The Dude Abides
Re: Phone outages last week - 02/26/24 01:05 PM
AT&T is giving those affected a $5 credit to your bill for your troubles. Don’t spend it all in one place.
Posted By: reeltexan
Re: Phone outages last week - 02/26/24 01:20 PM
You ain’t seen nothing yet.
Posted By: DukeCigars
Re: Phone outages last week - 02/26/24 03:10 PM
Originally Posted by BradyBuck
I noticed it but was barely an inconvenience and nobody that I’m aware of panicked. Talked to a few people and the reactions were just “meh”…
With WiFi you could still text, get on the internet etc.
With WiFi you could still text, get on the internet etc.
I was out in the woods and only have a wifi hotspot that I use...which, funny enough, uses AT&T towers so I was completely out of touch for 8-9 hours...I thoroughly enjoyed it, other than being out there by myself and not being able to reach out in case of an emergency or be reached in case of a home emergency
Originally Posted by The Dude Abides
AT&T is giving those affected a $5 credit to your bill for your troubles. Don’t spend it all in one place.
Oh well friggin yippee I guess
