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"Are outages like this acceptable in 2012?"

Jorge Luis Guerra It's called WiFi guys.

Corster Sharp im in virgin mob uk

Joel Williams is it acceptable for blogs to ask braindead questions in 2012?

Marvin Jose Figueroa I have VM AND YEA IT SCRWED MY DAY UP WIT THE TXTS....ALL THE TXT MA FRIENDS SENT DURING DA DAY CAME YO ME DURING DA NITE SMH

Ryan Rampersad I was affected by that outage, not significantly, but it still happened. In the two and half years I've had Virgin Mobile, this is the third time I think they had any real down time. For what I pay for it, it's not a big deal and email on wifi still worked, so it wasn't such a big deal.