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Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon users

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Post by 13of40 »

saltyollpheist wrote: post #160
nonethewiser wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tried to use it? Other comments suggest it's down nationwide but you are saying you're up?

Having bars doesn't necessarily mean calls can be made or received. Mine keeps fluctuating between 0 and 5 bars but wherever I try to make a call, it claims I'm not registered with my current carrier, which uses AT&T as its backbone.

That's something I've noticed in general with 5G - basically five bars means you've got a good connection to the tower, but you could have bad service due to a bottleneck upstream of that. (At least for data - for voice that might be more negligible.)

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Post by cddotdotslash »

peteradio wrote: post #148
DebtDeflation wrote: post #62

Verizon and T-Mo both issued statements that they have no outages and the issue is just their customers being unable to call AT&T customers. Looks like most of the AT&T network in the US is down though.

My wife has google-fi and her coworker has verizon. Both of them say they can't make calls.

Anecdotal, but I have Google Fi and was on a ~1 hour call this AM during the height of the outage and had zero issues.

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Post by flyinghamster »

partiallypro wrote: post #22

I haven't had service since around 3am this morning, my internet (fixed wireless) was also down around that time but has since come back on. I had just assumed it was local tower maintenance until I woke up and see it's still out and it's effecting millions. But was surprised to see it barely mentioned/getting engagement here given the scale.

Saw my Comcast was down also (SW Chicago suburbs), about 3AM CST, but it was back before 4AM. I figured it was a neighborhood outage when rebooting the cable modem did nothing, and then it came back without any fanfare.

My T-Mobile phone hasn't had any problems, knock on wood.

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Post by inferiorhuman »

peteradio wrote: post #148
DebtDeflation wrote: post #62

Verizon and T-Mo both issued statements that they have no outages and the issue is just their customers being unable to call AT&T customers. Looks like most of the AT&T network in the US is down though.

My wife has google-fi and her coworker has verizon. Both of them say they can't make calls.

I've been tethering with T-Mobile as my primary internet connection and that's been working just fine. Voice also works for me with both TMo and Google Fi.
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