The iPhone X is now available throughout the United States, but some of the new owners of the new Apple phone cannot start using it due to activation problems operator and congestion.
In the forums of MacRumors, various users of the North American operator AT&T They complain of activation problems and there are also reports of such activation problems on Twitter and Reddit. What is happening is that AT&T customers who are suffering from the problems, see how it happens Long waiting time in the activation process before, finally fail with an error message onscreen.
The problem appears to be due to heavy congestion with so many new devices trying to connect to the carrier at the same time and launch their activation process. Although there are users who have been able to make the activation process work after several attempts others have gotten it to work after a device reboot or via iTunes.
In MacRumors we could read these days story like this:
I called Apple. As another person posted, they made me turn off the phone and restart it. Still it didn't work. He told me to call AT&T, which I did. They confirmed that their servers were down, but they gave me the auto-activation phone number. I called, the system said it was activated ... but still no life on the phone. I changed the SIM card with my old phone ... but nothing, everything was the same. Connected to iTunes, and after having to restart the process several times due to errors, I was finally able to get it goingIn fact, it was updated to 11.1 and restored from an iOS 11.1 backup in one go.
In Spain there are no reports of mass failures when activating the new iPhone X.