T-Mobile Germany's network plunged into darkness
by Chris Ziegler 
posted Apr 21st 2009 at 3:59PM
It seems that large swaths of T-Mobile Germany's network have been down for much of the day today, which -- in our books, anyway -- is as good a reason as any to flip cars and light things on fire (thankfully, though, it seems they've restrained themselves so far). Only voice and SMS are affected, which is pretty cool since there are other ways to text and talk using data alone; that said, it's still a major bummer, and T-Mobile's currently investigating the cause of the outage. Remain calm, everyone -- remember, ganging up on that cell tower and knocking it over only makes things worse, not better.[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
Filed under: T-Mobile
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Peter F @ Apr 21st 2009 4:24PM
Naturally the confusion of the colors of engadgetmobile caused this problem. you guys should check your firewalls to see if you're receiving all of the traffic that supposed to be going to the towers.
Jonas @ Apr 21st 2009 4:34PM
German news agencies are reporting that the reason for the powerlessness was some kind of software error... No official word from T-Mo on this...
Peter F @ Apr 21st 2009 4:54PM
The news agencies had a 50/50 shot ;-)
carcomptoy @ Apr 21st 2009 4:38PM
Not to be nitpicky, but you should use the T-Mobile Germany logo instead of the T-Mobile USA one (difference in the dots arrangement).
RoseGold @ Apr 22nd 2009 2:03AM
wow has it gotten that serious?