With uverse down this is on the land line side of the house.

Thank god

may be at the switch level.

I work in building /installing radios and anennas, and converting traffic to fiber /4G; upgrading equipment to new Samsung equip for Sprint (but don't work for Sprint), etc.

yep; if the Local Exchange Carrier was having issues, and or the switch, the it would effect landline and TDM on the cellular side.

Do you own a car? Civilization progressed just fine without those, too. ;)

Well I don't know if you're talking from experience or something else, but I can say from my experience that ATT cell service has been just fine.

Although my service has not yet been restored. Perhaps I should try to reboot my phone?

Fewer dropped calls than Sprint. Ironic, as Sprint's HQ is not too far from my pos.

I loved it when I worked there and my calls would drop as I pulled into campus...

Once cell phones allow you to get laid and carry beer inside them you might have a point.









...even then I'd hate the ****ing things.

ROFL

Okay, gotcha.

All cell phone companies have "issues" with service at times
All cell phone companies want your money

/The end

also Sprint's maintenance window is 1am - 5am when doing anything service/network/customer impacting, as an FYI.

Mortimer we're back

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this

and btw, att sucked balls today, but in general, I have no issues with any service outages. definitely an expection, not rule.

That's not completely true. It depends on what you're doing. I have "just a little experience" in the field.
As for AT&T's problem yesterday, there's only about 3 things that could have happened and 2 of them are highly unlikely.
Before we get into a disagreement about Sprint having the fewest outages, remember that both AT&T and Verizon have to report all FCC outages, not just cellular. Sprint doesn't serve any landline based customers, but AT&T and Verizon do. I don't remember the exact critera for a reportable outage, but part of it is anything that effects more than 30K subscribers. Sprint does serve some customers for data and such via fiber, but the likelihood for that to fail to the point of an outage reportable to the FCC is pretty slim.