WOW. #646 accurate to 20 minutes after failed tower

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Student - 07 Apr 2004 18:51 GMT

I am currently in western massachusetts and suddenly when I check my
minutes they have been good to the hour. I usually check it at night
after 11pm it usually tells me minutes as of 8:45pm or 10:58pm . I
have unlimted NW so of course anytime after 8:30 is good. Suddenly
today i checked my minutes at 11:51 am and it told me how many I had
used since 11:04am!!! I just checked it at 1:43 and it told me how
many I had since 1:22pm This is amazing how long should I expect this
to occur? Last friday a tower went down in Westernmass and affected
some VW customers and those with BRONX, NY area codes. DId Verizon fix
and update something? or arm i just getting lucky? I am going to see
if my friends are getting the same accuracy.

Note: I updated my phone two weeks ago and was not affected by the
tower. I think I updated it friday night and monday. Yeah I know it
was too much but i had nothign to lose. But does it do anything. THey
could not have done too much in three weeks.

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Harold Sherrill - 07 Apr 2004 19:11 GMT

> I am currently in western massachusetts and suddenly when I check my
> minutes they have been good to the hour. I usually check it at night
[quoted text clipped - 12 lines]
> was too much but i had nothign to lose. But does it do anything. THey
> could not have done too much in three weeks.

I'm in the Houston area and this has been happening here for about 3 weeks
now. Previously, it would usually be updated the next day.

Also, prior to this months billing, my voice mail checking came out of my
m2m minutes. Now, as noted in the message area of a previous bill, it comes
out of the main bucket of minutes, either peak or off-peak.

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SCott - 07 Apr 2004 23:40 GMT

> [snip...] I
> have unlimted NW so of course anytime after 8:30 is good. [...snip]

9:01 is when your unlimited time starts (unless you have some
granfathered deal going on).

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Double U - 08 Apr 2004 01:25 GMT

Some time around 7 Apr 2004 10:51:32 -0700 (give or take a month), someone who says they are named
phonesrcomplicated@hotmail.com (Student) fired up the tubes on the teletype and rambled on about:

>I am currently in western massachusetts and suddenly when I check my
>minutes they have been good to the hour. I usually check it at night
>after 11pm it usually tells me minutes as of 8:45pm or 10:58pm . I

It is funny you mentioned this, I checked today after a long call and it was updated soon after the
call.

-W

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Double U - 08 Apr 2004 02:23 GMT

Some time around Wed, 07 Apr 2004 20:25:06 -0400 (give or take a month), someone who says they are
named Double U <PleaseSpamMe@myEmail.com> fired up the tubes on the teletype and rambled on about:

>It is funny you mentioned this, I checked today after a long call and it was updated soon after the
>call.

I stand corrected. I just called again at 9:15pm, and the last update was 2:15pm
Feh Unless it is done at certain times and I just hit the last one right after the update.

-W

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David S - 11 Apr 2004 20:29 GMT

On Wed, 07 Apr 2004 21:23:09 -0400, Double U <PleaseSpamMe@myEmail.com>
chose to add this to the great equation of life, the universe, and
everything:

>Some time around Wed, 07 Apr 2004 20:25:06 -0400 (give or take a month), someone who says they are
>named Double U <PleaseSpamMe@myEmail.com> fired up the tubes on the teletype and rambled on about:
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
>I stand corrected. I just called again at 9:15pm, and the last update was 2:15pm
>Feh Unless it is done at certain times and I just hit the last one right after the update.

Did you make any more calls after 2:15? I find that it usually reports "as
of" the time of my last call (or at least my last peak call).

I have yet to experience it being updated on the same day, but it may be
that I just haven't tried it under those circumstances yet.

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Student - 19 Apr 2004 02:27 GMT

> On Wed, 07 Apr 2004 21:23:09 -0400, Double U <PleaseSpamMe@myEmail.com>
> chose to add this to the great equation of life, the universe, and
[quoted text clipped - 14 lines]
> I have yet to experience it being updated on the same day, but it may be
> that I just haven't tried it under those circumstances yet.

Sorry did not reply to the post in so long. Yes I am still getting the
updates but up to about 3:00pm. I can get one basically every hours
after ten (after first class) notice when i called at 5 or 6 the last
update was about after 2. Still not bad. Sometimes you have long
conversations on lunch break and not sure. So all in all they did an
upgrade somewhere I am happy.

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Diamond Dave - 08 Apr 2004 19:28 GMT

#646 is almost instantanous now. Make a call and #646 reflects the
minutes used almost as soon as you hang up!

Kudos for VZW!

Dave

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