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Nextel is reporting several outages in Southern Louisiana that are causing Nextel Blackberry and Nextel Cell service interruption. They said this is due to a power failure with the interconnect to the local phone company. Any users that are reporting problems with their Nextel Phone in the Southern Louisiana area should call Nextel and report that their phone is being affected. Nextel has said that users that call in will get priority service over any affected users that do not report any issues and their phones will be re-activated first. Until then, users with a phone that is not having any issues are encouraged to not power it down because when it comes back online, it may come back up with “No Service”. Users that are having problems with their phone should power the phone off and on once every hour until service has been restored.

I only have the number for Nextel Corporate accounts, which is 1-800-390-9545