Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon users
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#2This reminds me of the recent discussion on status pages. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39099980
They need to be accurate. At&t status claims everything is fine.
My wireless service is down. Down detector has tens of thousands of reports, so clearly everything is not fine.
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#3I'll take a chance here and say this was a hack, possibly at the equipment-level. One major carrier having an outage? Possible. But three? On different networks?
Even if its not a hack I'd love to see the root cause on this one! Communications is critical infrastructure, so I'm gonna guess the government will demand a full report.
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#4>https://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=318230
Seems like they are doing drone testing. Hmm, should we use drone network that will interfere with mobile phone network?
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#5I'll take a chance here and say this was a hack, possibly at the equipment-level. One major carrier having an outage? Possible. But three? On different networks? Even if its not a hack I'd love to see the root cause on this one! Communications is critical infrastructure, so I'm gonna guess the government will demand a full report.
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#6This is so odd. I have two phones with AT&T currently sitting right next to each other. One has service, the other is in SOS mode.
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#7I barely noticed because my AT&T service is so bad on a normal day (not being facetious).
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#8I'll take a chance here and say this was a hack, possibly at the equipment-level. One major carrier having an outage? Possible. But three? On different networks? Even if its not a hack I'd love to see the root cause on this one! Communications is critical infrastructure, so I'm gonna guess the government will demand a full report.
There is some shared infrastructure in the PSTN that all network operators use. This smells more like an SS7 outage to me than a hack, but we'll have to wait to find out.
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#9I'll take a chance here and say this was a hack, possibly at the equipment-level. One major carrier having an outage? Possible. But three? On different networks? Even if its not a hack I'd love to see the root cause on this one! Communications is critical infrastructure, so I'm gonna guess the government will demand a full report.
There is some shared infrastructure in the PSTN that all network operators use. This smells more like an SS7 outage to me than a hack, but we'll have to wait to find out.
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