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A tipster sent this missive to our inbox last night: "no ones cellphones are working on the west side. i know for a fact att and sprint are down and have been for hours now." But the West Side wasn't the only part of town feeling cut off from the world; it seems AT&T had zero to minimal phone or network service from about 7 p.m. until at least 1:00 a.m. last night elsewhere in Los Angeles--we know this because our own beloved iPhone was of no use to us from the Valley to Glendale to Dodger Stadium and back to the Valley again. Luckily, it seems to be all systems go this morning. Did your AT&T (or Sprint, as our reader suggests) network disappear last night? Anyone know why this happened?
Did AT&T's Network Go Off the Grid Last Night?
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woot for Verizon. my phone was working just dandy last night!
I couldn't make any calls on the EDGE network but when i switched over to the 3G network I was able to receive and make calls.
Stop saying WOOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
T-mobile rocks.
I have the older iPhone, and EDGE wasn't working that well during the initial No on Prop 8 rally in Westwood, and later it completely failed in Hollywood/NoHo/Burbank for several hours. Same thing happened to a few other friends, all on AT&T.
Using an older iPhone also. My coverage started to get spotty as I was leaving Culver City. It completely shut down once I got on the 10/405. It was incredibly frustrating and I nearly threw my phone out the window.
ATT here and I work in Westwood. The conspiracy theorist in me thought maybe they shut off cell phone service because of the No on 8 protests going on here.
iPhone is bantha poodoo. Get a BlackBerry.
my edge iphone failed me as well in hollywood. My roommate's blackberry did as well.
I couldn't make any calls on the old iphone for a while in malibu and santa monica from 7-9.
woot
My Phone stopped working while traveling from Century City to the 405 at about 6:45pm. My girlfriend's phone didn't work between 7 and 9pm all the way over near the Grove. AT&T Service.
Probably cut-out b/c of all the douchebags stuck in traffic on the westside. I was one of those douchebags, until I realized Venice Blvd. was my road to Hollywood.
Once I got to Hollywood, my phone worked fine for the rest of the night.
It's like when we had that earthquake a few months ago... Everyone was on their phone... Networks shutdown.
Network overload caused by too many open signals in one location. Basically, all the calls wanted to get routed through one or two ground antennas, and since they couldn't all fit, the whole thing gets shut down. Probably a effect of the Protests + traffic. This happens everytime there is a huge parade in a city basically, but it seems like from all your posts, it was more widespread this time. Wonder if it will make city news?
I have Sprint, and it was working fine last night.
AT&T-equipped cell phone wasn't working all night either. Oddly, though, my AT&T Blackberry worked just fine. I do not understand technology.
My AT&T Blackberry had spotty service starting around 6:30pm (located in Hollywood). I couldn't make calls, but could, sometimes, send and receive text messages.
Oh well, I love AT&T/Cingular and have had the same service for 6 yrs. One evening of lost reception isn't something to cry about.
No wonder my phone said No Service all night. I was thisclose to switching back to Verizon...
T-Mobile was working just fine, on a first gen iPhone last night around Olympic and Bundy.
Several friends in the Valley were affected by the outage though.
I was out in hollywood last night, and no one's phones were working. This was any AT&T phone - iPhones, blackberries, etc. However, I have an iPhone 3G and I was making calls, sending texts, and receiving calls all night just fine. Tried switching over to Edge and I had the same problems as everyone else. Glad I upgraded my iphone a few months ago!
Mine seemed to work (iPhone, AT&T, Westwood area) but now that I think about it, that would explain why my friend never called me back. Hmmm.
sprint blackbrery was never off last night on the westside
I can't see the protest causing the service to shut down/ be spotty. when an earthquake strikes the whole city as well as everybody around the country who has friends and family is on a line.. this was just the westside...
itz cuz all th' gheys have iphone and were in weho and ho yesterday protesting.
my at&t nokia worked fine but i was in los feliz so ... not so westside.
lol
well, i'm not gay or a protester and was also nowhere near the westside last night and couldn't get on the network (or had weird spots of use, ie. sometimes i could txt, sometimes not; apps wouldn't load, etc). i'm not sure why the protests would cause network outages--i'm guessing there was far less call volume than other times when people make a lot of calls at the same time (christmas, after an earthquake, election night, etc) so that reason seems a bit far fetched. haven't seen anything in the news about it.
i got rid of my shitty verizon blackberry for my iphone. wouldn't dream of switching back, even after the (mild) frustration of last night.