ATT Network outage and 3G phone

I have been having lots of problems with the network ever since getting my phone. I am on my 3rd 3G iphone. The network went down all across the country last week and since it came back up I have not had any problems. I was wondering if anyone else has noticed better service.
When I called ATT the morning of the outage the rep told me the outage was a planned outage and the network would be back up by 11am EST. The network came up at 12 and has been working ever since. No dropped calls!
Is this just wishful thinking or did ATT fix the network problems!
I read that ATT was having the same problem with a new Blackberry called Bold. They would not release it because of the network problems.

Wishful thinking. The outage was not planned, despite what you were told by a rep (personally, I was told it was a "major problem with their data network affecting many cities") - it was a routing problem. AT&T reps don't always have accurate information. You don't have to take my word for that, AT&T admitted the problem publicly, see this linked Reuters article, for example.
Dropped calls are still occurring. Reportedly (according to statements at Apple's iPod event yesterday), v2.1 released on Friday will address that issue.

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