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Current outage in Belingham area?
I live in the Bellingham Area and do not share towers with Seattle. I've been having issues with mobile data since 3am. Is anyone else having issues?
Kaleokahu wrote:Now I'm told it will be ANOTHER 24 to 48 hours for the "upgrade" to finish and service restoration. If you can contact T-Mobile they can temporarily re-route your connection to a different tower.
I hope no one needs an ambulance or fire truck...
My service was re-routed and I’m now restored.
This outage is to upgrade the network for UC 5G. "UC" stands for "ultra capacity". What is galling is that the upgrade is to allow T-Mobile to cram more signal into the same bandwidth, i.e., sell more handsets and to obsolete old ones. I asked the agent why no advance notice was given to customers to expect up to 72 hours of service outage, and why customers aren't automatically re-routed. As usual, no answers.
It is the phone company, after all.
