Posted 2/22/2024, 11:34:37 PM
AT&T Hit by 11-Hour Nationwide Outage, FCC Investigating Cause
- AT&T experienced a massive, nationwide wireless network outage Thursday morning, leaving many customers unable to make calls, text, or access the internet
- The outage lasted around 11 hours before service was fully restored by late afternoon
- AT&T said an "initial review" found the outage may have been caused by an internal "application error" during network upgrades
- The FCC is investigating the outage and what led to the network failure
- While Verizon and T-Mobile reported some outages, they said their networks were not affected by AT&T's issues