Posted 2/22/2024, 5:03:45 PM
Outages Across Major Cell Providers Leave Thousands Without Service
- AT&T, Cricket Wireless, Verizon, T-Mobile and other providers experiencing cellular outages nationally
- AT&T hardest hit with over 58,000 reported outages; working to restore service
- Outages began around 330am ET, peaked around 73,000 incidents
- Unclear what is causing outages, but likely a cloud misconfiguration or human error rather than malicious hack
- Workarounds include using Wi-Fi calling if close to a Wi-Fi network