AT&T DSL Outage

AT&T has a DSL outage that affected many customers in the Southeastern part of the United States. The outage was due to equipment failure.

Michael Coe, a spokesman for the San Antonio-based telecommunications company, said the digital subscriber line service was restored about 10 p.m. CST. He said the outage affected customers in Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky and Tennessee. "The root cause of the disruption is still being investigated but appears to be an equipment impairment," Coe said in a statement. Dave Burstein, editor of the industry newsletter DSL Prime, said broadband outages are not unusual. "Broadband goes down much more often than telephone lines because they didn't build the system for the same level of reliability," Burstein said. "We do not know how often it happens, however, because they're not obligated to report it."

The problem has been reported to have been resolved.