Another Data Outage?

[vry5]

Los Angeles: no 4G all day, but 3G has been fine... never toggled to CDMA only, and no noticable battery drain, or complete drop of data.

also just noticed that the Settings Menu is now different 2.3.6, did I just miss that? whatever... just curious, since I haven't had to toggle Data since the update, until today, so there was almost no need to open setting.

 

[you2]

I don't believe this is the case (that it would take decades). Perhaps my understanding of the situation is not accurate; but what I have read strongly suggest this is not a super high-tech issue or a fundamental problem with LTE per sey. Nearly all the commentaries on outages have to do with a very narrow design issue centered on authoirzation (are you allowed to use the infrastructure).

It is very understandable that verzion wishes to protect their assets and not allowed unauthorized access; however the system they have implemented here appears to have issues and is not allowing access to devices that should be authorized.

I suspect this is not a super duper high tech issue though it might (or might not) be related to the number of devices with LTE access. Still if my suspicions are correct it is not a high tech issue but likely a rather low tech issue. However, as I've stated these views are largely based on speculation and I doubt verizon is about to release the details (at a technical level) of their current issue. However it would not surprise me if it is a fundamental design issue that takes a while to roll out and if we knew the low level technical issues verizon would be rather embarrassed.

My LTE and 3g are back up in Northern Minnesota. Hopefully everyone else's comes back momentarily (and mine doesn't fail again ).


Pretty much, and there is always a trade off between rapid deployment of the network infrastructure and reliability. Verizon, if they wanted to, could implement LTE with a goal of 99.999% reliability (random large percentage made up), but the roll out would take decades. Actually the outages don't bother me too much. They're obviously bad, and disruptive but their pretty typical of a new/growing network. The general crappiness of the system when it is working does bother me (inconsistent speeds, connectivity issues mostly). At this point in the roll out the day to day experience should be better.

 

[NOMster]

I just wish the phonewould stay connected when there is no outage. I have never been able to attach a large file or even have a decent browsing experience because every few minutes the data is gone.

 

[Docmac1000]

I'm in Nashville TN, I did an update this mornig before I noticed the data state, but I didn't have any Data services all the way to work. I'm wondering if it's a data outage or if the update hosed my phone.