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AT&T is giving customers a $5 credit for its cellphone outage. Some angry customers say it's not enough.
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2024
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Since it was down for 1.6% of the month, then everybody should get a 1.6% discount.
At $30 a line, that’s not very much. I guess $5 is good
Actually, you're totally right. They are giving you more now than you would get if they gave you a 1.6% discount.
No, just reimbursing for the actually time is not enough.
You enter into a contract for a service and that service was broken. There's the lack of reliability that's the issue.
If they were out for a month customers would suffer more than $30 in consequences from stuff like lost productivity.
If it were a pay-by-minute service than sure, but you purchase a month in the expectation it will work that entire month. They should get at least 25% of the monthly cost reimbursed if not the entire month.
I'd say that's fair for a service that isn't the backbone of emergency services, like TV, or even internet.
Not having phones in an emergency is a different ballgame. I feel like the FCC should have laws about cellphone uptime.
Did emergency services not work? My phone said “SOS Only”, which I assume would mean I could make 911 calls if I needed to.
FirstNet was down on top of regular cell service. It’s not your ability to call 911, it’s how devices inside fire trucks for example connect to the internet and receive information, how volunteer firemen receive digital pages, etc.
That sounds worse.
Well I’ll tell you one thing, there’s always a lot of discourse on why firehouses in the U.S. still use a siren when digital paging exists. This is why.
But that was just 1 network, no? You could still carry out emergency phone calls over other cell networks. Or does that not work in U.S.?
Emergency calls in both Europe and the US operate on the same cellular network. And pretty much all of the world that has cell service. Emergency numbers like 112 or 911 just get prioritization in the event of overloading/poor signal/etc.
In Europe, though, AML would send a GPS signal out which would alert emergency services of your failed attempt to call and your location. Not exactly a phone network, but I guess a "separate network" if we're being technical.