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Rogers system crashes during iPhone sales

By Rob Avison ⋅ July 12, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

On iPhone launch day, Rogers’ registry networks crash simultaneously with Apple’s iTunes registering system. The outage lastsed into the afternoon at some Canadian locations. And, Rogers representatives say they expect record first-day sales, but declined to disclose how many phones were shipped to stores or how many they had expected to sell

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    2 comments for “Rogers system crashes during iPhone sales”

    1. Every store I visited in Ottawa yesterday was a disaster zone. I wrote up an account of the botched launch here, if your readers are interested.

      Cheers,

      Daniel Smith
      Smithereens

      Reply

      Posted by Daniel Smith | July 12, 2008, 12:18 pm

    2. [...] and Rogers faced downtime: Rogers brings the iPhone to Canada and the mad demand for the iPhone crashed their systems, resulting in a outage. Not surprising? Well then the Apple iTunes Registering system failure left [...]

      Posted by The iPhone 3G Launch! - OnlyGizmos | July 12, 2008, 3:51 pm

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