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Ring in the New Year with "Service Busy"! Yay!

muchdrama

Jan 1, 2005, 1:08 PM
Anyone else have problems with Verizon's service New Year's Eve? From midnight till about 2am I couldn't make a call if my life depended on it. My first 6 calls or so were met with "call dropped", and my last 20 or so calls were greeted with "Service Busy". I was a bit surprised (but by no means astonished...everyone in America was on their cell phone at the time), especially when I was able to borrow a friend's Cingular phone (Samsung s307) and make all my calls with no problems.
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schnozejt

Jan 1, 2005, 1:11 PM
No issues here in Seattle
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DSFB407

Jan 1, 2005, 8:07 PM
I had the same problem in here in NYC...Once again the nations best celluar provider messes up again... 😁
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Miami786vzw

Jan 2, 2005, 11:23 AM
I was not able to make calls down here in miami florida untill 1am new years eve.
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muchdrama

Jan 2, 2005, 12:15 PM
Miami786vzw said:
I was not able to make calls down here in miami florida untill 1am new years eve.
Okay, so it wasn't just in Coral Springs. Interesting. Anybody care to chime in with what they think is a valid reason for this? Hell, I was even able to get a few calls out using Nextel.
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BigMacDoodle

Jan 3, 2005, 2:06 PM
I have Verizon. In Phoenix we were able to send/receive 40 or so text messages and make 10 or so calls.
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Anxiovert

Jan 3, 2005, 4:51 PM
No problems whatsoever in Jacksonville Fl. I was texting and calling with no problems and I was at the beach, which (I've heard it's a weird area, tides)
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muchdrama

Jan 4, 2005, 1:24 PM
Anxiovert said:
No problems whatsoever in Jacksonville Fl. I was texting and calling with no problems and I was at the beach, which (I've heard it's a weird area, tides)
That would have been lovely. Instead I had to use a friend's Nextel phone and another friend's Cingular phone. Oh well...jammed lines I guess.
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XxDennis11xX

Jan 4, 2005, 8:19 PM
I had the same problem. My friend with T-Mobile had the same problem. All it said was call droped or call failed and if you tried calling from a landline phone my phone was busy
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shadedpain4

Jan 3, 2005, 2:09 PM
I made tons of calls (VZW) with no problems.

Oh wait, i couldnt get through to Romania when it was midnight there, but that wasnt a VZW issue....
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