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AT&T website ground to a halt under crush of iPhone 4S pre-orders

Widespread reports of long waits [on AT&T Mobility’s website], starting shortly after midnight Pacific time.

2 hours of putting in my information and hitting refresh and I STILL don’t have an iPhone 4S. AT&T, you failed again. Goodnight.

Eric (‘gameric’) Gamero, who posted that message on Twitter at about 3:15 a.m. PST Friday, was hardly alone. In the early hours after Apple began taking pre-orders for its latest iPhone, due out next Friday, hundreds of similar complaints flooded the messaging service, “Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports for Fortune.

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MacDailyNews Take: We ordered our iPhone 4S units via Apple Store Online earlier today and everything worked perfectly. Anyone try AT&T Mobility’s or any other carriers’ site and encounter problems?

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