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Old 01-02-2010, 02:17 AM
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Re: text messages from the future Y2KX issue

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Originally Posted by strra View Post
i talked to a guy at sprint about this issue, actually
pretty much, what he said was that every year at exactly midnight on jan 1st the towers reset.... apparently more people than ever were sending "happy new year!" texts at exactly midnight and it borked the system...
he said there are people working on the towers and the computers and it should be fixed within 3 days
I hate to say it but that sounds like bull****. The busiest time of the year is not going to be when they tell the towers to simultaneously reset... nor would it explain why the problem persisted. I think he may have been yanking your proverbial chain
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