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Old, new, either way it doesn't work

'No Talking' For Cingular Customers
Sun Oct 12, 4:38 PM ET

Many Cingular Wireless (news - web sites) cell phone customers found themselves without service Saturday.

The cell phone provider began to experience a network problem around 2:30 p.m. when a service platform failed. Cell phone users found they are without service, signal and voice mail functions.

The problem continues to affected its customers in California and Nevada.

Cingular says when they became aware of the problem they began work to fix it immediately. Normal service was expected to be restored by Sunday morning, but is now expected to be repaired around 6 p.m. Sunday.

Cingular suggests that to complete the repair process, customers perform a "hard boot" or power-shock on their cell phones by removing the battery while the phone is turned on. It is important to wait 15 -20 seconds before reinserting the battery and turning the phone back on.

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Another example of GSM at it's finest. LOL