AT&T Is Having A Rogers Style Outage In The US
As I type this, AT&T is having a massive outage that stated early this morning. By massive, I mean the sort of outage that Canadians experienced almost two years ago with Rogers. Here’s the details from Reuters:
A cellular outage on Thursday hit thousands of AT&T users in the United States, disrupting calls and text messages as well as emergency services in major cities including San Francisco.
More than 73,000 incidents were reported around 8:15 a.m. ET, according to data from outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
AT&T said some of its customers were facing interruptions and it was “working urgently” to restore service. “We encourage the use of Wi-Fi calling until service is restored,” it said.
The AT&T outage has impacted people’s ability to reach emergency services by dialing 911, a post on social media platform X from the San Francisco Fire Department said.
This is bad. It’s bad enough that cell phone service is out. But when it stops people from phoning emergency services, that’s potentially life threatening. Hopefully this gets resolved quickly. And when it does, I would not at all be surprised to see some AT&T execs called to Capitol Hill to explain what happened to lawmakers and what they will be doing to ensure that it doesn’t happen again.
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