No service in Beaumont, TX area

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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?

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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. [...] ws&id=7866

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

Bradon

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Thanks. Man, 2 weeks!


<BRElliott@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1107824283.944332.69450@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
> 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. [...] ws&id=7866
>
> My contacts at SBC confirm the fiber cut but nobody is giving a
> realistic ETA.
>
> Bradon
>

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"Steve Johnson" <stevedjohnson@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
news:8jSNd.27155$uL5.2282@fe2.texas.rr.com...
>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.

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Christopher F wrote:
> "Steve Johnson" <stevedjohnson@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
> news:8jSNd.27155$uL5.2282@fe2.texas.rr.com...
>
>>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)

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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)

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