AT&T's Data Network Fails

AT&T data customers across the country were reporting issues in accessing the EDGE network on Monday, although the company was able to restore service by 7pm Eastern. Technicians continue to work on the problem. The exact reason and origin of the outage was not known, but the carrier was quick to point out it was not due to the iPhone. While voice and text messaging remained unaffected, both EDGE and 3G services were down for several hours.

Blackberry users were unaffected as their services pass over a separate network, however subscribers with iPhones and other data-enabled devices reported problems. Within minutes of the outage, threads appeared across the Internet on various Mac enthusiast sites reporting issues. According to those threads, service was out in Dallas, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Hawaii, and Cincinnati among other cities.