Much to many people’s surprise this morning some of the always reliable T-Mobile Hotspots in Manhattan stopped working. It seems T-Mobile has a massive outage affecting the Big Apple this morning, and according to Hotspot support there isn’t any estimated repair time known yet.
The outage this morning that currently affects all T-Mobile Hotspot users in the Amtrak Penn Station, most of the Midtown Manhattan hotspots (i.e. Starbucks) and the Grand Hyatt. I found out as I’m affected by it when I exited my morning train to New York for meetings at Penn Station and was able to log on to the T-Mobile Hotspot but couldn’t go any farther. My call to Hotspot support confirmed what I suspected as I realized that when both the browser authentication and when the Blackberry Curve showed my devices connected to the hotspot, but then kept seeing the Curve seeking the UMA connection that something was amiss.
Well at least there will be some Boingo hotspots working in the city 🙂