No service in Beaumont, TX area

I have 3 Sprint phones on 2 different accounts and all not working. The
phones are showing Roam and attempting to use the Verizon service. No help
from Sprint, nobody home.

Any ideas? Network problem? Armaggedon?

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What do the phones do when you attempt to dial a number? Did you call Sprint
Tech Support for assistance?

"Steve Johnson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>I have 3 Sprint phones on 2 different accounts and all not working. The
>phones are showing Roam and attempting to use the Verizon service. No help
>from Sprint, nobody home.
>
> Any ideas? Network problem? Armaggedon?
>

Sprint PCS has a fiber cut in MI that is affecting us. I found a quick
blirb here:

http://216.87.159.39/news/default.as...ownews&id=7866

My contacts at SBC confirm the fiber cut but nobody is giving a
realistic ETA.

Bradon

Service could be out for up to two weeks in MI due to the train
incident. That's rough.

Thanks. Man, 2 weeks!


<[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Sprint PCS has a fiber cut in MI that is affecting us. I found a quick
> blirb here:
>
> http://216.87.159.39/news/default.as...ownews&id=7866
>
> My contacts at SBC confirm the fiber cut but nobody is giving a
> realistic ETA.
>
> Bradon
>

Update: Service has been restored (for at least one tower) in Beaumont,
TX.

"Steve Johnson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>I have 3 Sprint phones on 2 different accounts and all not working. The
>phones are showing Roam and attempting to use the Verizon service.

Hehehehehehehe. Make the switch, friend.

He has already made the switch and is with the best wireless provider.

"Christopher F" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> "Steve Johnson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>>I have 3 Sprint phones on 2 different accounts and all not working. The
>>phones are showing Roam and attempting to use the Verizon service.
>
> Hehehehehehehe. Make the switch, friend.
>

Christopher F wrote:
> "Steve Johnson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>
>>I have 3 Sprint phones on 2 different accounts and all not working. The
>>phones are showing Roam and attempting to use the Verizon service.
>
>
> Hehehehehehehe. Make the switch, friend.

Did you notice where it said "SBC"?

It looks like an interconnect problem between SBC's landline network and
Sprint. The one thing I find interesting is that the fiber cut was in Michigan
and it affected Texas. I find this interesting because they're not only on
opposite sides of the country, one's former Ameritech territory, the other
former Southwestern Bell terriotry. Backhaul from Michigan to Texas must be
pretty damned expensive. (Just found it interesting, as someone who has done
lots of work for ISPs over the years, and thus has had to work with a number of
phone companies, especially SBC.)

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"In case anyone was wondering, that big glowing globe above the Victor
Valley is the sun." -Victorville _Daily Press_ on the unusually large
amount of rain the Southland has gotten this winter (January 12th, 2005)

Yeah, that bewilderered me, too, Steve, until I studied the maps and
text on the TV station's story (see URL), and concluded that the cut was
in MS=Mississippi, not MI=Michigan.

Steve Sobol wrote:

> It looks like an interconnect problem between SBC's landline network and
> Sprint. The one thing I find interesting is that the fiber cut was in
> Michigan and it affected Texas. I find this interesting because they're
> not only on opposite sides of the country, one's former Ameritech
> territory, the other former Southwestern Bell terriotry. Backhaul from
> Michigan to Texas must be pretty damned expensive. (Just found it
> interesting, as someone who has done lots of work for ISPs over the
> years, and thus has had to work with a number of phone companies,
> especially SBC.)
>

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Frank Harris wrote:
> Yeah, that bewilderered me, too, Steve, until I studied the maps and
> text on the TV station's story (see URL), and concluded that the cut was
> in MS=Mississippi, not MI=Michigan.

That makes more sense. Of course, MS isn't SBC territory at all, it's BellSouth

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"In case anyone was wondering, that big glowing globe above the Victor
Valley is the sun." -Victorville _Daily Press_ on the unusually large
amount of rain the Southland has gotten this winter (January 12th, 2005)

My bad, that was just a typo.

Oops, sorry about that guys. I intended Mississippi, I just gave the
incorrect abbreviation.

Steve Sobol wrote:
> Frank Harris wrote:
>
>> Yeah, that bewilderered me, too, Steve, until I studied the maps and
>> text on the TV station's story (see URL), and concluded that the cut
>> was in MS=Mississippi, not MI=Michigan.

> That makes more sense. Of course, MS isn't SBC territory at all, it's
> BellSouth


While that's true, SBC does still likely have backhaul facilities in
various states, even though it may not be the ILEC in all of them.

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