Strong interest in the newly announced
Verizon iPhone appears to have caused
intermittent outages on the Verizon
website Tuesday, resembling AT&T's
iPhone 4 preorder woes from last year.
Scattered reports of downtime on the Verizon
Wireless website seem to indicate that pent up
demand for the Verizon iPhone has
overwhelmed the carrier's servers at times
throughout the day.
According to one AppleInsider reader, attempts
to access the upgrade section of Verizon's
website timed out or received the message:
"Safari can ’t open the page because the server
unexpectedly dropped the connection. This
sometimes occurs when the server is busy. Wait
for a few minutes, and then try again."
Several other readers have also reported being
unable to access the Verizon website on Tuesday.
Verizon announced the much-rumored and long-
awaited CDMA iPhone earlier Tuesday at a
press event in New York City.
The carrier could experience an even greater
surge in traffic when the device is available for
preorder "on or around February 3rd," in
advance of its official Feb. 10 release date. Verizon
customers can sign up on the Verizon website to
get the iPhone 4 before "they're available to
everyone else."
The largest wireless provider in the U.S. also
revealed Tuesday that the CDMA iPhone 4 will
allow Wi-Fi tethering of up to 5 devices
through a built-in feature of a new version of
Apple's iOS, called 4.2.5. By comparison, AT&T
currently only allows BlueTooth or USB tethering
of 1 device for an additional $20 per month.
However, a new rumor says that GSM-iPhones
could get the Wi-Fi hotspot feature in a future
update to iOS.
Verizon has published a frequently asked
questions section on its website for customers
interested in the iPhone 4.
Last June, AT&T was forced to temporarily
suspend iPhone 4 preorders after a ten-fold
increase in demand from the previous year
threatened to overwhelm the company's servers.
AT&T saw record sales on the first day of
preorders for the iPhone 4, before the site was
overwhelmed by the traffic. Some AT&T stores
resorted to using pen and paper to take preorders
for the handset.
Apple's own website and 800 number also
experienced outages last year because of
extraordinary demand for the iPhone 4.
Source: Http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/01/11/verizon_website_downtime_reminiscent_of_att_iphone_preorder_troubles.html
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