AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile customers hit by widespread cellular outages in U.S.
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Over 50,000 AT&T outages were reported at about 7 a.m. ET Thursday, with most issues reported in Houston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, and Atlanta, according to tracking site Downdetector.

Over 50,000 AT&T outages were reported at about 7 a.m. ET Thursday, with most issues reported in Houston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, and Atlanta, according to tracking site Downdetector.

AT&T’s network suffered a widespread outages across the country Thursday morning with cellular service and internet down, according to the tracking site Downdetector.

Some Verizon and T-Mobile customers also reported outages, though theirs appeared to be less widespread than AT&T.

Over 32,000 AT&T outages were reported by customers at about 4 a.m. ET Thursday. Reports dipped then spiked again to more than 50,000 around 7 a.m., with most issues reported in Houston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, and Atlanta, according to the site.

That number surged to more than 71,000 just before 8 a.m. ET.

A little over 1,100 T-mobile outages and about 3,000 Verizon outages were reported as of 7 a.m. Thursday.

It’s not clear what triggered the service disruption.

  • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    52·
    9 months ago

    I think it’s far more likely to be an attack.

    Edit: If it does in fact turn out it’s just AT& T then hanlon’s razor and somebody made a boo boo on change control.

    • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
      32·
      9 months ago

      I dunno’, DNS hiccups cause more of an outage than this. If it’s an attack, it’s either a probe that went too far or kiddy’s first ddos script.

      • Zron@lemmy.world
        2·
        9 months ago

        If kiddy’s first ddos script can bring half the country’s cell phones down, then I think ATT has some explaining to do.

        • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
          1·
          9 months ago

          Oh, I’m sure they would for a serious, in-depth audit. Hopefully this isn’t a Lucille Ball moment.

      • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        9 months ago

        You don’t attack wireless in a town you attack the backbone network. NYC was affected as well.

        But now that it seems that only AT&t was affected, change control issues are far more likely

          • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            9 months ago

            Social engineering, zero day vulnerabilies, inside operatives. Their security runs tight ships but the towers are on the backbone and unmanned. The hardware isn’t all custom. Vulnerabilities happen. I wouldn’t be shocked if they could. E knocked out by some careful BGP hackery.