Temporary Cricket Wireless outage affects customers across the country

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UPDATE: Cricket Wireless tweeted that service had been fully restored, but users may need to turn their devices off and back on again.

#CricketNation, service has been fully restored. Technicians worked around the clock to resolve the issue. We sincerely apologize.

Cricket Wireless (@Cricketnation) June 4, 2016

We apologize again for any loss of service. You may need to power your phones offand then back on to restore service.

Cricket Wireless (@Cricketnation) June 4, 2016

Previous story continues below:Some customers of one wireless company are hearing nothing but crickets Friday evening.

Cricket Wireless users across the nation took to social media to report issues with voice and data service.

The company tweeted that they are working on the problem, but says there is no timeframe for a fix.

We are aware of a service issue affecting some customers & are working quickly to resolve it. We apologize for this inconvenience.

Cricket Wireless (@Cricketnation) June 3, 2016

The website Down Detector, which tracks outages and downed websites, showed the affected areas as of 7 p.m. PT. The website also reported a large spike in recent outage reports from consumers.

Cricket Wireless outage map courtesy of Down Detector. (Google Maps)

The cities most affected include Houston, Phoenix, Chicago, San Antonio, Denver, Mountain View, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Portland, according to Down Detector.

On its website Cricket Wireless says it covers 317 million people with its no-contract service.

Cricket operates using AT&T cell towers, but AT&T customers have not been reporting the same level of outages.

Many Cricket Wireless customers took to Twitter Friday evening to complain:

Cricket Wireless is REALLY living up to their name today. All crickets with this outage. My bill better be just as quiet too. @Cricketnation

#EpicFestVI (@CainMcCoy) June 4, 2016

@Cricketnation @att Your websites have*zero* info regarding widespread outage. I"d call u but THE NETWORK IS DOWN.

Mark Challen (@mcair01) June 3, 2016

#CricketWireless is not working on North Texas. For the past 3 hours no service, no e-mail, no data, no calls in or out. Anyone else?

John Wannamaker (@johnkwann) June 3, 2016

.@Cricketnation And you will be issuing credit for this inconvenience, presumably? This is ridiculous.

Stephen Wicken (@skwicken) June 3, 2016

Source: http://fox13now.com/2016/06/03/cricket-wireless-outages-affecting-customers-across-the-country/

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Cricket says cell service restored

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) UPDATE (6/4, 8:53 a.m.): Cricket tweeted Saturday morning that service has been restored.

__________________________PREVIOUS (6/3): If Cricket is your cell phone carrier, you"re probably one of the many thousands without service right now.

We know the local stores have been bombarded with people wanting to know what"s going on. We spoke to one woman whose phone isn"t working right now.

In fact, I was driving around and I was thinking about calling my daughter on a payphone. You can"t find a payphone, says April Conradsen.

We"ve made several attempts to get a hold of several different people from Cricket including people who are listed as public relations and media relations contacts.

We just wanted to find out when service will be working again.They would only tell us they are working to resolve it. But, they refused to answer any of our other questions.

Source: http://www.kktv.com/content/news/Cricket--381848291.html

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Cricket a gentleman's game? No ways, not in South Africa

If it is true that quotas played a part in the selection of South Africa's team to play in their losing semi-final against New Zealand at the Cricket World Cup, Cricket SA board members should bow their heads in shame.

They should also look at themselves in a mirror and ask themselves this question: Are you stupid?

Does transformation come before even a prize such as the World Cup title? Is a World Cup semi-final the place and time to regurgitate the bitterness of the past by going back to a system that should have been scrapped 10 years into the new democracy?

It is simply disgusting to think Chris Nenzani, Norman Arendse and their fellow board members might have perpetrated something like this.

The great Nelson Mandela endorsed the 1995 Springbok rugby team even though only one player of colour was in the World Cup winning lineup -- Chester Williams.

He also called for the springbok emblem to be retained. He knew how sporting success could build a nation.

Now that he has gone, these mealy mouthed little men continue to insult his legacy by allegedly doing repulsive things like this.

Were any of them there when the Springboks won the Rugby World Cup in 1995? Did any of them see the celebrations, the explosion of joy, in the streets around Ellis Park?

The win was celebrated by white, coloured, Indian and black alike, all of them overjoyed that their new democracy had achieved something so great.

I suspect they weren't there. I suspect that some of them even resented that win, because it set back their bitter campaigns.

All the cricketers are under contract. Their livelihood is cricket. Most of them have little else to turn to if they are banned from cricket.

So they can hardly be blamed for the conspiracy of silence following the revelations about the cricket semi-final in Auckland.

AB won't talk, coach Russell Domingo won't talk, it's unlikely Vernon Philander will talk, given that he is the centre of this storm of outrage. Will Kyle Abbott, the man who should have played in Philander's place talk?

It's doubtful. That team is tight. The players support and respect each other. Not one of them would want to do anything to undermine a team-mate.

So, who, apart from the secret sources named in the original story by our cricket writer, Telford Vice, will talk?

The only man who could possibly shed light on this is the convener of the cricket selection committee, Andrew Hudson, one of the most decent gentlemanly players who ever represented South Africa-- in fact, so decent, that getting involved in this kind of thing must leave him appalled -- and probably way out of his depth.

The Hudson we have known isn't this devious, he isn't this deceitful. He would want to play with a straight bat and, if he was ordered to play the unfit, out-of-form Philander, who went for 17 runs in his first over, it must have broken his heart.

Or has being part of cricket's highly politicised hierarchy contaminated him; has he been convinced that the wrong way is the right way?

The next few weeks are likely to be revealing. If he resigns, we will know that he has been unable to reconcile his conscience with the things he might have been forced to do.

If he doesn't, he is the one who will have to tell us: was Philander, who had a dreadful World Cup, a political plant or not.

If there was political intervention, then Cricket SA's radicals - politicians who shouldn't be in sport - will have to take responsibility for sabotaging the process of nation-building that such a big sporting triumph would further -- and, the very thing this country needs more than anything else.

As an afterthought, if a wildly over-extravagant, over-publicised and over dramatised inquiry had to be held into Hansie Cronje's match-fixing antics, then there should be an equally well publicised, judicial inquiry into these charges of political intervention because if there was, it would be every bit as dishonest as Cronje's actions were. Perhaps even more so.

Cricket a gentleman's game? No way; not in South Africa.

Source: http://www.timeslive.co.za/sport/cricket/2015/03/30/cricket-a-gentleman-s-game-no-ways-not-in-south-africa

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