Cingular problems

Having trouble making or receiving calls from your Cingular phones? Or maybe having trouble calling someone with a Cingular phone? Well this just in:

About 2:45 p.m., Cingular began experiencing a problem with the long distance signaling system between Texas and Washington state. The problem may affect customers' abilities to make or receive calls. Areas affected include parts of Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma.
Repair teams are fully engaged but we have no estimated time of restoral at this time.
Customers can still communicate by text messaging, since data services are unaffected.

And my friends said text messaging was just a fad. You know technology has moved from a fad to useful when you start text messaging the county judge and commissioners.