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I've been told by AT&T CSRs that the Edge network has been down since the afternoon of Feb. 16, and they have no idea when it will be back up. One thing I'm not clear on -- this looks to be a bigger problem for iPhone users with Go Phone accounts -- like me -- as opposed to those with regular accounts. I'm curious about that -- if you're still able to connect to Edge, which kind of account do you have?

I have the standard, basic AT&T service. and no trouble connecting. I'm on right now reading my mail from Apple Discussions notification that you've made a post.

Dedo: Thanks. That helps. I'm going to look into switching.

Good luck, Uncle, post back on what you find out.

Isn't it weird. When the Blackberry network went down it was national news, but the att data network goes down and nothing at all as far as I can see???

Do you know if the entire data network went down - including at&t's 3G network or the EDGE network in certain areas only?

I accessed the EDGE network for several hours after lunch yesterday where I live so at&t's entire EDGE network was not down.

RIM's entire network goes down and all Blackberry customers are without email by any means.

I spoke to a AT&T rep this morning who confided in me that it was mostly Go phone iphone customers who were the issue. Apparently whatever servers they use to authenticate these phones to the data network and allow internet access arent working. So if you have a standard service agreement phone you should be fine. Its just us go phone iphoners that are out of luck. They have no ETA for fixing this, which is kind of scary. If you call up and complain they may be willing to refund you since its been going on since saturday now and you prepaid for the service. If enough go phone people do this they might speed up their fix of the issue.

Two more calls to AT&T this morning, one to a CSR who had no idea about the outage -- and transfered me to Apple support even after I told her the phone wasn't the problem -- and one to another CSR who was very apologetic but still had no idea when this problem would cease.

That was enough. I stopped by the local AT&T store at lunch, handed over a deposit and will be switched to a post-pay account as soon as I get home and sync the phone. I'll let y'all know how it goes.

AT&T credited me for the data portion of monthly bill so I was appeased for the time being.

Just checked with AT&T their latest to the call center was that the engineers have identified the root cause but there is still no ETA for a fix.

I paid the deposit, got a new SIM card for my post-pay account and the phone is now working perfectly. I know it's not a viable solution for everyone, but if you can swing it, think about making the switch.

Glad you're up and running again.

Woke up this morning and the edge network is working for me again. Hope everyone experiencing the problem got AT&T to refund them this months data plan. It only twenty bucks but hey, its twenty bucks. Lets hope that doesn't happen again.

Spoke to soon, it stopped working again. Did your phone start working once you moved over to the two year contract?

It's Uncle Crappy who switched. I've been on the standard contract from the start and didn't lose service.