When the premier data network in the US takes a nose-dive, people pay attention. Especially those people that were left without data access for hours.
AT&T, reeling from the enormous bad-press generated by a multi-state data network outage on 
the East Coast, left us all hanging with their promise to find out exactly what caused 3G and EDGE data users to go through wireless data-withdrawal. Today, AT&T spokesperson Brad Mays told Ars Technica that the network has been repaired and that the root of the data network outage has been pinpointed. “There was a routing issue affecting some wireless data use in the Northeast region. AT&T technicians determined the cause and restored service at 11:56 a.m. EDT,” said Mays. “Voice calling, text messaging and BlackBerry email were unaffected.”
That’s it folks. No downed cell towers, no massive power losses. AT&Ts’ data network blackout was caused by a simple routing issue.
Now, if AT&T could move on to shoring up their 3G infrastructure to help support the flood of iPhone 3G demand…
[Via: ArsTechnica]