A serious cellphone outage affected users across the US early Thursday — even stopping some police departments from having the ability to receive 911 calls.
AT&T looked as if it would have experienced the most important variety of issues, with nearly 32,000 reports at around 4:30 a.m., in response to data from DownDetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from sources including user-submitted errors on its platform.
Greater than 800 service outages were also reported on T-Mobile and Verizon, although a spokesperson for the latter put it right down to users reporting problems attempting to call individuals with other services.
Others reported issues on smaller carriers including Boost Mobile, Consumer Cellular and Straight Talk Wireless.
A serious cellphone outage affected users across the US early Thursday — even stopping some police departments from having the ability to receive 911 calls. Christopher Sadowski
The variety of outages from AT&T peaked at 31,931 at around 4:30 a.m. ET, in response to Downdetector.com. Downdetector.com
The issues prolonged from Recent York, Boston and Atlanta on the East Coast to Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles, Seattle and San Francisco — and even to Montreal in Canada.
Several police stations throughout the country even warned that individuals could also be unable to call to report emergencies.
Nevertheless, many AT&T users say they’re stuck in “SOS Mode” through which they’ll only reach emergency services.
A spokesperson for Verizon, nevertheless, told The Post its network is “operating as normal” and the problems appear to arise when customers attempt to call or text those using one other telecommunications company.
Many expressed their frustration with the continuing outages, because the providers have yet to issue any statements.
“AT&T is literally probably the most expensive phone corporations, and y’all have the audacity to have a service outage for hours with zero updates being given to your customers?” one customer wrote on X.
“Y’all got one hour to wrap this shit up! Fix it and fix it now.”
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Cellular outage for T-Mobile users peaked at between 3 a.m. and 6 a.m. Downdetector.com
One other called it “crazy.”
“It’s an entire outage going [on] within the US and a number of people can’t text or call anybody, only number you possibly can call is 911… that is unusual and scary,” he wrote.
Some feared the widespread outages may very well be a cyberattack, with one techie saying he “can’t imagine that is incompetence or a single node failure.”
The reason for the outages, nevertheless, stays unclear.
The Post has reached out to AT&T and T-Mobile for comment.
With Post wires
