Much to many people’s surprise that wee hours some of the always dependable T-Mobile Hotspots in Manhattan stopped working. It seems T-Mobile has a massive outage affecting the Big Apple that dawn, and according to Hotspot support there isn’t any estimated repair day known yet.

The outage that AM 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 daylight 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 signal 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 next 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

Original post by Andy Abramson