10-31-2005, 08:10 PM
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Cellular Network Down, Finding It Difficult To Concentrate
About 2 hours ago my 4 bars on my PDA2K turned into the exclamation point, showing it was looking for service. I of course did the first thing any knowledgeable Pocket PC user would do - soft reset! No joy. I called T-Mobile and they said there was nothing down in the area. Now I am thinking it is my device, so on my lunch break, I drove to another tower. (Pathetic isn't it?) Thankfully the signal was strong and I called T-Mobile from my cell phone to report the outage. By then, they knew about it and said it was some sort of high-capacity issue in the area, whatever that means. There are more farm animals in this part of the country than people. Maybe the pigs are SMS'ing each other. What really irritates me is the phone can see the Cingular towers but their computers say T-Mobile has coverage in this are and won't allow roaming. So, when towers go down, tough noogies. :evil:
Anyway, I have no voice, email, SMS, MMS or anything else. I am actually forced to use Outlook on my laptop to do emails. 8O Oh the humanity! I am finding it difficult to concentrate because my lifeline to both work and personal lives has been severed, albeit temporarily. I hope... :worried:
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10-31-2005, 08:16 PM
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That happened to me a few months ago. It lasted two days, and boy was it tough. However, I use a Smartphone and a non-PE PPC, so I wasn't in quite the same situation as you.
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10-31-2005, 08:20 PM
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Just remember happy haloween 
Maybe the witches are sorting out their plans for the evening! 
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10-31-2005, 08:34 PM
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That would be worse than forgetting your device at home because it's out of your hands and there is nothing you can do to prevent it.  Hopefully it will be a short outage for you.
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10-31-2005, 08:39 PM
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I get nice EDGE service in Switzerland...but shock you I must...I've switched to a Treo 650...and I get push email with Chattermail...so...
If the network went down it would really hurt. Once you go push there's no going back.
Hope they get that tower back up fast for you.
Outlook...now there's a Halloween fright!
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10-31-2005, 09:05 PM
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The closest tower to my home in the suburbs (very populated area) has been down for about 3 months...they keep telling me it is my phone since it is a Jam (and now the Qtek), the same phone(s) that work perfectly everywhere else. When someone came home with me and noticed her phone not working, she called them and they said that they were doing "service" in the area."
Here's my theory:
If your phone is under T-Mobile's warranty, any problem will be blamed on the network. This way they avoid replacing faulty phones. If you bought your phone elsewhere, the phone is the problem, even if it works everywhere else as well as Cingular's network.
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10-31-2005, 10:27 PM
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Update: The tower is back, emails are flowing :alfdance: ...and I've lost my stylus. :frusty:
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10-31-2005, 10:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry
...and I've lost my stylus. :frusty:
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Long fingernails on pointing fingers is as good as stylus, although my classmates keep looking at me weirdly sometimes.... :roll:
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10-31-2005, 11:56 PM
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Originally Posted by carphead
Just remember happy haloween
Maybe the witches are sorting out their plans for the evening! |
or wizards... maybe ghosts too!
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11-01-2005, 12:27 AM
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Originally Posted by Silver5
The closest tower to my home in the suburbs (very populated area) has been down for about 3 months...they keep telling me it is my phone since it is a Jam (and now the Qtek), the same phone(s) that work perfectly everywhere else. When someone came home with me and noticed her phone not working, she called them and they said that they were doing "service" in the area."
Here's my theory:
If your phone is under T-Mobile's warranty, any problem will be blamed on the network. This way they avoid replacing faulty phones. If you bought your phone elsewhere, the phone is the problem, even if it works everywhere else as well as Cingular's network.
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#1 T-Mo rule of thumb: If using a phone that isn't the one you originally bought from them, you simply lie when they ask you what phone you are using...
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