Nationwide cellphone service outage impacting AT&T customers, other carriers

[Jose Garcia]

Source: NBC 10 Philadelphia

Several cellular services providers in the U.S. appeared to be experiencing outages Thursday morning, according to the outage tracking site Downdetector.

AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon customers began reporting issues with their services around 3 a.m. ET Thursday. There are also network issues with Cricket, Consumer Cellular, Boost Mobile and other regional services.

A spokesman for Verizon told NBC News that they don't see any issues on their network and believes the problem is with other carriers. Verizon customers are only having issues when trying to call a number that is associated with one of the impacted carriers.

NBC reached out to AT&T and T-Mobile and did not immediately hear back.

Read more: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/att-t-mobile-and-verizon-users-hit-by-cellular-outage-in-the-us/3783172/%3famp=1

[EYESORE 9001]

1. T-Mobile here

No issues presently.

[OldBaldy1701E]

3. Same.

It all seems fine at the moment.

[3Hotdogs]

6. Gimme your phone number. I'll call you and test out mine.

[EYESORE 9001]

13. I'll give it to you phonetically, so the bots can't glom onto it

It’s ME - TOO - I - ATE - ONE - SOUR - TOO

[3Hotdogs]

37. Did'ja get my call?

[sinkingfeeling]

2. AT&T says my phone's not registered on any network when I

attempt to dial out. I get this as a pop-up on screen.

[Marthe48]

11. I have ATT

I got that message. I have my wifi calling turned on. It has allowed me to get and send calls and hear alerts.

[Ms. Toad]

28. Unfortunately, my wifi is out, too -

so wifi calling isn't an option.

[Marthe48]

32. I was fortunate

Today, of all days, I was actually expecting a call. I got around the outage.

I told my daughter I will never remember all of the panic changes I made this morning

Hope you get your service back. I got 3 messages about the outage about 1 PM EST, each about the outage.

[2naSalit]

4. There was a solar flare...

R1: HF Radio: Wide area blackout of HF radio communication, loss of radio contact for about an hour on sunlit side of Earth.
Navigation: Low-frequency navigation signals degraded for about an hour.

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/space-weather-enthusiasts-dashboard

[Marthe48]

33. I wonder how it affected some services but not others?

I bet ATT competitors who weren't offline will have a field day with their ad content about reliability

[vercetti2021]

5. Mine is ok

I'm on T-Mobile

[Danascot]

7. I'm out.

My phone is telling me I'm not on a registered network. Android/ATT

[bcool]

8. No signal for me with AT&T in St. Louis @ 7:17am n/t

[Wednesdays]

9. Our service is down. Consumer Cellular. nt

[Hermit-The-Prog]

14. CC here, too, but no outage...

On restart, my phone shows AT&T and then switches in a few seconds to Verizon. I thought Consumer Cellular only used AT&T and T-Mobile.

[riversedge]

10. Apparently a solar flare, not the Russians 😂, is responsible for the nationwide cell outage. Verizon, ATT, SOS Only

i do not have any of these 3 so I am ok.

Link to tweet

?s=20

Link to tweet

?s=20

[Hermit-The-Prog]

15. C'mon now, get real -- you know it's either Putin or Soros. Don't blame Sol.

[Marthe48]

12. I think I was having trouble yesterday

A call I was expecting went right to vm. Early this morning, I called vm and got in. Later, it's asking me for a pw, which I don't need and might not have.
My android phone is working on wifi calls.

[Picaro]

16. ATT customer

My service is completely out right now.

[SCantiGOP]

17. AT&T in SC

I’m fine

[question everything]

18. My AT&T is fine - land line..

[Drum]

19. AT&T here in NYC: all good so far.

[LeftInTX]

20. Angry mob at ATT store. San Antonio. No service. Can't use Wi Fi calling either.

Wish I still had my landline

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

35. I'll bring pitchforks and torches

[LeftInTX]

39. Apparently, it happened all over the country LOL

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

I went to the store to try to figure out what was going on. I thought I might have had trouble with my AT&T account or that something was the matter with my phone settings. (I literally was working on my phone settings and was struggling to set up my Samsung Cloud and had just done a reset when all of a sudden, my phone couldn't find a network)
I left when they said it was due to an outage.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

40. My wife was at work all day, her T-Mobile phone was silent, she called me from the work landline

[LiberalFighter]

21. Does that mean no calls from Medicare scammers?

[LeftInTX]

24. Not funny. I can't refill my prescription for a seizure disorder.

[LiberalFighter]

25. I still have a landline.

For that situation can you go to a local pharmacy?

[LeftInTX]

34. I had to call the doctor! I went to the pharmacy.

The pharmacy said, "You need to call your doctor. You are out if refills"
They accidentally chaulked and filled our landline jack last year. I had the LL for emergencies. I was pissed when the idiot filled it with drywall repair goop.

[Trueblue Texan]

22. Both my internet and phone are AT&T

Both are working fine, but yesterday morning I had a little trouble getting online.

[LeftInTX]

23. It's not slow. It's freak'n dead. Can only call 911

[WhiteTara]

26. tracphone is down

[Ocelot II]

27. I have AT&T, seems to be working here.

[John1956PA]

29. My backup cell phone, an ATT flip phone, has functioned throughout.

My primary cell phone, an android Tracfone, also functioned throughout the event. I think that TracFone is owned by Verizon.

[sinkingfeeling]

30. My AT&T mobile is now completely working. Came back around 45 minutes ago.

[Sedona]

31. My AT&T service just came back in Atlanta about 1pm Eastern

Been out since I woke up this morning

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

36. So that's why I wasn't getting my usual calls this morning. I just need to embrace my inner Kitboga instead of ignoring

[intrepidity]

38. My ISP (xfinity/comcast) went down at 2am pst

Wonder if it was related? Was out at least an hour.