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International Roaming Outage Affecting Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile Customers [Updated]
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So technology is not 100% fail free - gee, really? There are other things to do in life than checking your social media every 3 minutes…
It's interesting how issues like this expose (often) deep, single points of failure (e.g. Syniverse).
Since it's affecting the all 3 carriers, it's impossible to dump them. Directly or indirectly all cellular traffic goes through their networks.
You can do better with no sacrifice.
I have had the same moble number for maybe 25 years. It has moved across multiple vendors. For a chunk of years my employer took it over and paid the bill, then back to me when I retired. Now it's on my daughter's family plan which is a global plan. Works great. Our only complaint is Find My doesn't function for us outside the US.
When the employer had the number we had two options on AT&T, either with or without global. The global option cost the company $8/month which is maybe $11/month in today's dollars.
Same reason why Microsoft feels the need to change product names every few years (E.g. MSN Search, Windows Live Search, Live Search, Bing - it’s still the same MSN Search). The marketing people feel they have to justify their existence if they’re not (re)naming or (re)designing brands.
If you call and yell at the front line workers they can fix it immediately by pressing the “fix it now” button.
You just have to yell at them the right way for the right amount of time until they are willing to press the button.
Many try, but the correct combination of screaming and timing is elusive.
Don't think this one is Verizon, I was really pissed as well, dropped when really needed. Jumped on a WiFi and found it's a pretty huge issue not just Verizon. 🤷🏼♂️
Yeah well I spent 50 minutes on the phone with a CS rep yesterday to fix the issue and not only did they repeatedly tell me that there was nothing wrong with the network, the end result was that my number was removed from my phone entirely and I had to buy a Mexican eSIM. Add to that I wasn’t in the best area so with all that it was screw job.
Yeah I told the other guy I was on the phone with a rep for 50 minutes and he said over and over there was nothing wrong with the network. Then he screwed up my eSIM so my number was removed from my phone and I had to get another eSIM. So it SCREWED me hard in a tough area of CDMX. How about you keep your opinion to yourself when you don’t know the details? It was a horrible screw job for me.
Don’t care. Verizon screwed me yesterday. They can get stuffed. Their CS lied to me.
I love how all of these people are disagreeing with me like I didn’t have a horrible experience in Mexico City over this issue. It’s actually a personal thing and you people shouldn’t really have an opinion at all. Pretty rude.
This is not a Verison problem. It happened to many other carriers at the same time. The fault is with a little-known company who's job is to switch users between carriers.
I agree, everyone including you has a right to be irrational.
I've been in South Korea and Japan the past two weeks with Helium Mobile (T-mobile MVNO) haven't had a single issue typing this on mobile data right now.
I’m a British person visiting Los Angeles with international roaming enabled on my iPhone on the UK ee network. My wife and I lost all voice calling yesterday, unable to connect to T-Mobile, Verizon etc and just seeing SOS where the bars should be. Was normal for a short while this morning but down again now.
AT&T, T-Mobile customers unable to make calls, use network at Austin airport
An airport representative said it's uncertain what caused the disruption and how long the networks will be affected.
www.statesman.com
Apparently international airports too?
Look at me social media users jump on outage as way to flex about overseas trips x 100000
OMG LIKE ANY OTHER AMERICANS IN MILAN NOT HAVE CELL SERVICE??????
(fish face)
OMG LIKE ANY OTHER AMERICANS IN MILAN NOT HAVE CELL SERVICE??????
(fish face)
That’s actually surprising. Since you’d think AT&T in Mexico would roam on… AT&T Mexico. Odd that they’d rely on a 3rd party to connect the two.
Lmao I sure hit a nerve with my posts huh? Guess this place is filled with Verizon employees 🤣
At least one forum member agrees with you here, non ironically.
Per my count, this is the sixth sign of the Apocalypse. I might have missed one or two.
