Quote Originally Posted by Baingoleth View Post
Lots of posts by the SE NOC here:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/forums/625-Status

Seeing as they are the people at SE who directly deal with NTT when NTT's service is impacting the game, that is official enough for me.
While that is enough for some... As you can plainly see, that does not seem to be enough for many others in this thread and on the forums.