Mobile Outage in New York

If you’re seeing yourself banging your cellphone on your head in frustration because it just won’t dang work, it’s probably because you’re in New York and you’re using Sprint. Apparently, some damage to underground network equipment have caused outages in some parts of Queens, NY.

Sprint Nextel Corp. 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 wired network, Sprint spokesman Mark Elliott said.

Sprint and Verizon (which runs the wired network that carries the data from cellular towers) have confirmed that the outage is due to waterlogging and not because of terrorist acts.

[From Reuters]

August 10th, 2006 Posted by J. Angelo Racoma in News, Telco at 4:59 pm Comment Now! »
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