US US cellular outage hits thousands of AT&T users

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Feb 22 (Reuters) - Large swathes of the U.S. were hit by a cellular outage early on Thursday, with thousands of users reporting disruptions with the services offered by telecom firms including AT&T (T.N).

More than 32,000 outage incidents were reported with AT&T's service around 4:30 a.m. ET, according to data from outage tracking website Downdetector.com. Impacted cities included San Francisco, Houston and Chicago, the website showed.

Users of Verizon (VZ.N), T-Mobile (TMUS.O), and US cellular also reported issues with the telecom firms' services, according to Downdetector.

The companies did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment on the reason behind the outages.

A post on social media platform X from the San Francisco Fire Department said the outage was impacting people's ability to reach emergency services by dialing 911.

https://twitter.com/SFFDPIO/status/1760618741422072177

https://archive.is/PfLZ1

"We are aware of an issue impacting AT&T wireless customers from making and receiving any phone calls (including to 911)," the fire department said on the platform formerly known as Twitter, adding that it was "actively engaged and monitoring this."

Reporting by Nilutpal Timsina and Harshita Mary Varghese in Bengaluru; Editing by Savio D'Souza, Varun H K and Shounak Dasgupta

 

[Lorne Armstrong]

Sounds like folks should have kept that copper landline after all.

 

[Sniperwoof]

Poojeet contractors strike again.

 

[Male Idiot]

Glowies need vacation time too.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Another sign of a looming competency crisis?

Yet another reason Current Year sucks if so.

 

[CHARizard]

https://downdetector.com/

If you scroll down on downdetector it shows dozens of services spiking reports.

 

[JULAY]

Another sign of a looming competency crisis?

Yet another reason Current Year sucks if so.

This is what you get when you hire based on personal characteristics like sex or race instead of one's ability to competently perform one's job. DEI is nothing more than a race to the bottom.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

DEI is nothing more than a race to the bottom.

People being hired on for "identity" rather than skill seems to be a reason why it looks like new stuff always has this "shoddy and watered-down Current Year feel" to them.

 

[Al from Dadeville]

Did another former AT&T employee go haywire and make some custom mods to his RV?

 

[make_it_so]

I would be commenting and shitposting with you all on my phone from the comfiness of my bed, but unfortunately this downtime means I gotta use my pc like a weirdo.

 

[TJT]

The crisis of competency is going to snowball right quick in the next 5 years boys!

Did another former AT&T employee go haywire and make some custom mods to his RV?

The line I read somewhere is that AT&T installed some threat detection system into their network and a day or two ago. Now this happened. No idea how true that is. Nor how it effected so many other carriers unless they all use the same infrastructure.

Found it.

https://www.mobileworldlive.com/att/att-injects-threat-detection-into-network/

 

[make_it_so]

@TJT Nigger you've been here since fucking 2017, you should know you don't need to triple post.

 

[dustbuster]

The crisis of competency is going to snowball right quick in the next 5 years boys!

No, they're going to blame the russians or iranians soon and go to war.

 

[TJT]

@TJT Nigger you've been here since fucking 2017, you should know you don't need to triple post.

I have yet to have coffee, fuck off bruh.

 

[make_it_so]

No, they're going to blame the russians or iranians soon and go to war.

The glowies and their media house organs were hyping up an upcoming cyberattack, though I'd figure it'd be something that happened closer to the election.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

Ah, that explains why my cell signal is wonky today.

O.K. good to know. My parent's are going to freak out now, probably

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

https://downdetector.com/

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If you scroll down on downdetector it shows dozens of services spiking reports.

This isn't that surprising, most 'alternative' services from the big carriers just lease access to the big carriers towers anyway, so if one goes down, they all still go with it.

Wonder if they're gonna claim it was a cyberattack

 

[Fatboi Gus]

>Congress unable to send cash to Ukraine
>Glowies suddenly start saying a major cyberattack will soon happen, probably from Iran or Russia
>Mass telecom outages in America

Really gets the noggin' joggin'

 

[Dick Mason]

Nilutpal Timsina and Harshita Mary Varghese in Bengaluru

The English words in that sentence give it an uncanny sheen. It's almost language, almost, so close! But then hershita timsina vagcheese.

 

[Evilronald]

Another sign of a looming competency crisis?

Yet another reason Current Year sucks if so.

The thing that isn’t being talked about is how much these big companies are outsourcing as well. So not only do we have a bunch of incompetent minorities in positions they shouldn’t be, we also have a bunch incompetent 3rd world people with no critical thinking skills included in things that ultimately are vital to things working correctly. It seems like every year we have things happen that were completely unheard of after World War 2.