This was Nationwide….
Verison, T-Mobile and other services where not affected …..
AT&T ‘s Cricket service was also affected….
Shortly after 11 a.m., AT&T said service was back for most people. “Three-quarters of our network has been restored,” company spokesman Jim Greer said in a statement. “We are working as quickly as possible to restore service to remaining customers,” he said.
Emergency centers in several states, including Virginia, North Carolina, Texas and California, reported that the outages prevented people from making emergency calls from their cellphones. Customers were advised to use a landline for any calls, or find a cellphone that uses a different carrier….
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Local governments across the country said the outage caused various disruptions to their own emergency services. The Massachusetts state police said many of the state’s emergency centers were being flooded with calls from people trying to see if 911 works. “Please do not do this,” the Massachusetts state police said on X….
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One would suspect that Governmental agencies ARE going to want to know what can be put inplace so that this wide of a interuption in service doesn’t happen in the future ….
image…AT&T Newsroom
As I expected….
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and FBI are investigating widespread outages in AT&T’s wireless network that affected customers across the country Thursday morning.
The FCC said it is aware of the reported outages and its Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau is actively investigating the incident…
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