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jones · 08-10-2006, 8:08 PM

Major cellphone outage reported in New York Thu Aug 10, 3:23 PM ET

Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE:S - news) said an outage of its cellphone service in parts of the New York borough of Queens on Thursday was caused by water damage to network equipment due to a burst pipe.

The outage came amid intensified airport security after British police said they had foiled a plot to blow up several aircraft flying between Britain and the United States. Two major New York airports -- JFK and LaGuardia -- are in Queens.

The service interruption, reported earlier by the New York City police, was caused by damage to equipment in Verizon Communications Inc.'s (NYSE:VZ - news) wired network, Sprint spokesman Mark Elliott said.

Sprint, the No. 3 U.S. mobile provider, said communications around up to 75 of its wireless towers in Flushing, Queens, were affected. Cellphone calls travel over wired networks between wireless towers.

A Verizon Communications spokeswoman confirmed that some network gear was damaged by a leak at its facilities in Queens. Its wireless venture with Vodafone Group Plc (VOD.L), Verizon Wireless, said it was not aware of any problems with its network in Queens.

Verizon expected the problem to be fixed by evening.

A New York police spokesman said the alert it sent out about the outage was "an FYI."

"It has nothing to do with anything else. It's not criminal," the spokesman said.

Cingular Wireless, a venture of AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T - news) and BellSouth Corp. (NYSE:BLS - news), said it was not aware of any network problems in Queens.

http://today.reuters.com/news/articl...archived=False

Yankees368 · 08-10-2006, 9:05 PM

I heard that nextel service is also down in my area as well. Sprint is its usual self though.

AnthroMatt · 08-11-2006, 1:33 AM

Yeah, this outage only affected the iDEN network from what I hear.

n2jtx · 08-11-2006, 9:02 AM

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Originally Posted by jones

The outage came amid intensified airport security after British police said they had foiled a plot to blow up several aircraft flying between Britain and the United States. Two major New York airports -- JFK and LaGuardia -- are in Queens.

Yes they are but only LGA is close to Flushing. Queens is a rather large county and JFK is about as far south of Flushing and LGA as you can get.

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Originally Posted by jones

Cellphone calls travel over wired networks between wireless towers.

Not always. Locally where I am, T-Mobile appears to have a microwave link between my local tower and a remotely situated tower about two miles away. They have line-of-site to each other and it is probably cheaper than paying Verizon for a dedicated line to the remote tower.

wirles · 08-11-2006, 9:46 AM

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Originally Posted by n2jtx

Not always. Locally where I am, T-Mobile appears to have a microwave link between my local tower and a remotely situated tower about two miles away. They have line-of-site to each other and it is probably cheaper than paying Verizon for a dedicated line to the remote tower.

Yea, but it is a wired connection coming into the host site and they are sharing T1's via M/W to the remote.

Fire14 · 08-11-2006, 2:15 PM

Between this & the Major Electrical issues in Queen's, they may have to redo the water mains & Electrical Lines.
At least it wasn't a major outage for all of NYC & it's things like this the carriers/phone companies can't help.
Hopefully they got everything restored quickly for Nextel & Sprint customers.

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jones Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,425 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Major cellphone outage reported in New York Major cellphone outage reported in New York Thu Aug 10, 3:23 PM ET Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE:S - news) said an outage of its cellphone service in parts of the New York borough of Queens on Thursday was caused by water damage to network equipment due to a burst pipe. The outage came amid intensified airport security after British police said they had foiled a plot to blow up several aircraft flying between Britain and the United States. Two major New York airports -- JFK and LaGuardia -- are in Queens. The service interruption, reported earlier by the New York City police, was caused by damage to equipment in Verizon Communications Inc.'s (NYSE:VZ - news) wired network, Sprint spokesman Mark Elliott said. Sprint, the No. 3 U.S. mobile provider, said communications around up to 75 of its wireless towers in Flushing, Queens, were affected. Cellphone calls travel over wired networks between wireless towers. A Verizon Communications spokeswoman confirmed that some network gear was damaged by a leak at its facilities in Queens. Its wireless venture with Vodafone Group Plc (VOD.L), Verizon Wireless, said it was not aware of any problems with its network in Queens. Verizon expected the problem to be fixed by evening. A New York police spokesman said the alert it sent out about the outage was "an FYI." "It has nothing to do with anything else. It's not criminal," the spokesman said. Cingular Wireless, a venture of AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T - news) and BellSouth Corp. (NYSE:BLS - news), said it was not aware of any network problems in Queens. http://today.reuters.com/news/articl...archived=False __________________ - 3 Billion GSM Users by 2009. - 700 GSM Carriers in 220 Countries - 82% of the Global Market 45,000 Cell Sites and Adding.

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Fire14 Easy,Cheap & Sleazy Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Union County NJ Posts: 8,457 Phone(s): EnV, V750 Provider(s): Verizon Thanks: 2 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post Images: 293 My Auctions	Re: Major cellphone outage reported in New York Between this & the Major Electrical issues in Queen's, they may have to redo the water mains & Electrical Lines. At least it wasn't a major outage for all of NYC & it's things like this the carriers/phone companies can't help. Hopefully they got everything restored quickly for Nextel & Sprint customers.

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