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Major cellphone outage reported in New York

Discussion in 'Northeastern US Wireless Forum' started by jones, Aug 10, 2006.

  1. jones

    jones Silver Senior Member
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    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/artic...UKOC_0_US-TELECOMS-NEWYORK.xml&archived=False
     
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    #1 jones, Aug 10, 2006
  2. Yankees368

    Yankees368 Compulsive Signal Checker
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    I heard that nextel service is also down in my area as well. Sprint is its usual self though.
     
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  3. AnthroMatt

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    Yeah, this outage only affected the iDEN network from what I hear.
     
    #3 AnthroMatt, Aug 11, 2006
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    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.
    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.
     
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  5. wirles

    wirles I'm baaaaaaaaaack
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    Yea, but it is a wired connection coming into the host site and they are sharing T1's via M/W to the remote.
     
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    Fire14 Easy,Cheap & Sleazy
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    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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