LTE outage irks users, dents Verizon's reputation

28.04.2011

If the network suffers a similar failure soon, it might indicate there is something wrong with the underlying architecture. That would be a harder problem to fix, Marshall said.

Like failures of Research In Motion's BlackBerry service in the past, the outage proves that no matter how highly praised a system may be, it can still fail, Gold said.

"People have gotten used to the notion of these things being up all the time ... and that's just not the case," he said.

The IDG News Service