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If you’ve been alive on Twitter and following South by Southwest 2009, you’ll know that AT&T’s network is down in the dumps (again) in Austin, Texas. Tweets like “Dropped call number 833, AT&T’s data network is down again, ^*%)*&%^)% AT&T!”, and so on are actually among the nicer ones. Well it seems that people are not setting Twitter on fire with complaints, AT&T is getting some direct heat too, and thankfully, it has responded with a promise to immediately increase network capacity. As of a nice press release;

To accommodate unprecedented demand for mobile data and voice applications at SXSW, we are actively working this afternoon to add capacity to our cell sites serving downtown Austin.  These efforts are ongoing, but we anticipate that customers should see improved network performance this evening and for the remainder of the event.  We will continue to monitor network performance throughout the event, and will do everything possible to maximize network performance throughout.  We apologize to customers who were inconvenienced during this surge in local network demand.

Now let’s hope other parts of the country suffering the same fate get domeincreased-capacity love too.