horrible 3G service and sms messaging during hurricane Sandy
beenay621
Newbie

I live in Ramsey NJ and have really enjoyed my iphone for years. I must say something really bad is going on and its not just hurricane Sandy. You have a cell phone for communication, information and overall security.  In the last 36 hours I have text messages never being delivered, cell phone calls not ringing and going to voicemail and ultimatly THE WORST is no data service whatsoever!!  My 4G verizon friends on my block have no problems whatsoever but all I get is "Data service not available".  What is that? Pulling the plug on 3G too soon?

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Re: horrible 3G service and sms messaging during hurricane Sandy
Ann154
Community Leader
Community Leader

Did you not listen to the weather and other news personnel saying that cell service may not be available for all services? All the carriers might have experienced high call volume or limited capacity on a tower due power outages or other reasons. They could have also reserved more capacity on the tower for voice and text communications. Sometimes even the tower could be so overloaded that only text messages could get through.

I'm most definitely NOT a VZW employee. If a post answered your question, please mark it as the answer.

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B33
Legend

Could Even be the Towers are Down or the Elements were Damaged & ya can't rule out Damage to the Building or Buildings if other flying Debris hit the buildings) Hopefully none of this has Happen.. But you can't Rule it out I'v seen what a Tornado can do to a Tower and it's not pretty.. 

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silver6056
Specialist - Level 1

It must be about time for someone to suggest a class action suite against Verizon for Sandy.  Or maybe we can get out of contract without an ETF because of Sandy.  And that $30 upgrade fee did NOTHING to prevent this!!!

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beenay621
Newbie

You guys read the whole message? Tower serving other folks fine. Now if you

said 3G runs deprioritized to 4g fine. SMS messages should have gone

through. We never had the bad rains or winds thus the tower has no damage.

Sent from my iPhone

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silver6056
Specialist - Level 1

As you say, they probably did prioritize 4g over 3g.   But your whole message lacks impact when it is really "Horrible service on my phone..., other Verizon users fine."

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beenay621 wrote:

You guys read the whole message? Tower serving other folks fine. Now if you

said 3G runs deprioritized to 4g fine. SMS messages should have gone

through. We never had the bad rains or winds thus the tower has no damage.

Sent from my iPhone

And you know the tower has ZERO damage HOW?

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beenay621
Newbie

I can see it by line of sight and drove by it his afternoon.

Sent from my iPhone

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MINISTER18
Newbie

THIS HAS TO BE A TOWER ISSUE MY PHONE WAS WORKING THIS AFTERNOON, NOW IM NOT GETTING 4G SERVICE ANYTHING, I BELIEVE ITS WHERE YOU ARE LOCATED I AM IN BROOKLYN. I WAS AT WORK IN QUEENS AND IT WAS WORKING. NOT SURE WHATS GOING ON BUT IT SURE IS ANNOYING.

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Ann154
Community Leader
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A visual inspection from the road can't guarantee that there isn't damage to the tower, radio units, power supply and a whole host of other possibilities.

I'm most definitely NOT a VZW employee. If a post answered your question, please mark it as the answer.

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