Dan 3g?

It is the older SIM cards that are affected. It is isolated to older SIM cards associated to 717 numbers. It has to do with technicalities related to some testing / upgrading there towers. Whatever the technical reason, there is a newer SIM card for the traditional sim and there is a newer micro sim as well. The new sims came put when AT&T got LTE in some markets. No one with the newer sims are affected. If you don't believe me and you have an iPhone 4, take it out and compare it to the sim of someone's iPhone that doesn't say Dan on it. They sims are different colors and you'll understand that the non LTE sims are the ones affected. The iPhone 4S and 5 ship with a new sim in them and have since they came out. There is a newer regular sim that will work that's LTE capable, it's what the first Samsung note uses. Peace out people, stop debating the issue. Even apple care manager thanked me for figuring this one out and said they will share with other areas if arts issue starts popping up in other markets.

But..... Who is Dan???

>It has to do with technicalities related to some testing / upgrading [their] towers.

I'll buy that. I saw a crane working on the water tower the other day that houses the cell towers for Carlisle. (My wife thought they were cleaning the bird crap off it.) 🙂

Yep. I saw the crane too. I know for a fact that Sprint is working on that tower this week. I don't know technically how sprints work could affect AT&T but it is funny it's called "Dan"

MY sister has a non smart phone and it says Dan in the middle bottom of her screen.

I have a iPhone 4s and mine said Dan on it also. That was about 2 hours ago. I turned phone off and back on and it went back to att then to mcell. Note i should have been on mcell the whole time as I barely get service at my house. On mcell i have full bars, on dan i have 2-3. And wouldnt you know that as i'm typing this message it switched back to dan??? Dont figure:(

Just got home and saw that my wife's 4 is showing the Dan network in a 717 area code. So this is what I know so far. Everyone is in the 717 area code.

Mine - iPhone 5 - AT&T

Sisters - iPhone 4 - Dan

Fathers - iPhone 4 - AT&T

Best Friend - iPhone 4S - AT&T

Best Friend's Wife - iPhone 4S - AT&T

Wife's (same accound as mine) - iPhone 4 - Dan

Mother's - iPhone 4 - AT&T

Doesn't seem to be any relation to phone version or account information. It does seem to be married to the 717 area code.

I agree with you, System.out.printin!

I have an newer AT&T 3G iPad with a (717) assigned number and it is not affected by the issue. This proves the SIM card theory is true and it is isolated to phones within the local area code.

Whatever the issue ends up being - AT&T will acknowledge it, resolve it and will continue operating as it normally would. This area had a similar issue like this (without the "Dan" name) when they were upgrading their cell tower equipment to 3G a few years ago. Nothing to be alarmed about this time around, no conspiracies are taking place either.

Weird! My wifes phone still says ATT but mine says Dan. We both have Iphone4's on the same account mine is a MC319LL and hers is a MC318LL. Both have the Carrier listed as AT&T 13.0.
Weirder!! There was a chime sound and my wifes just changed to Dan too!!

What is going one?!!

In Central PA, Carlisle area. Woke up to Dan as well. Somebody posted on Pennlive.com that it's "Diagnostic AT&T Network" Related to the LTE upgrades that are happening. I'll buy that as an explanation...for now.

Still have "Dan"

My 3gs and my wife's cheap little ericson both show it.

We are on towers in Indiana so this is not a local tower thing.

Has to be on the ATT network side of things to service of those with a 717 area code.

Can we get anything from ATT themselves that's official?

My question is "will AT&T charge me for the new SIM card(s)?"

I have 3 iPhones on my plan.

2-3's and 1-3GS

All of them are showing DAN.

We're all up for upgrades. If I'm going to get charged for SIM cards it might be easier to do the upgrade.

Merry Christmas kids. Your new phone will count as an early Christmas present.

When I called AT&T last night the rep told me they did not know what the problem was. If a simple sim card issue why not just tell me to go to the store? I had the DAN last night but my wife and son, who have same phone, did not. This morning my wife now has the DAN network. As such, this problem is ongoing not ending. AT&T could just text me to go to the store for a new sim card, but I assume they would not have enough. Great inforamtion provided. Thank you.

I have an iPhone 4, live in CO but still have a 717 area code. Just spoke with an ATT rep and she was able to ping my phone while it was powered off and this took care of it, she also said going to an ATT store for a new SIM card wouldn't hurt. Glad to hear my phone wasn't hacked.

I am also in the 717 area code and woke up to DAN. As a side note: Reading and York PA went live with 4G LTE at midnight on 12/4. I do believe that as the diagnostic tests are being done, this would cause Sir DAN to show up on our phones, but AT&T should be able to fix this problem remotely. I do not want to be bothered by having to replace my SIM card when they are the ones with the faulty network.