NBC News
AT&T’s network suffered a widespread outages across the country Thursday morning with cellular service and internet down, according to the tracking site Downdetector.
Some Verizon and T-Mobile customers also reported outages, though theirs appeared to be less widespread than AT&T. More
Test.
Sounds wonderful. I have a lot of books to read and neighbors to visit.
BTW: Does it mean we can’t be tracked or listed to as well?
@ LMA
No, strange, but that part still works?
Edit: “listened to”
Another benefit to a retreat from tech: When I can’t post or email, and have to resort to writing letters by hand, I’ll take my time and spell correctly.
There was speculation today that the trouble could be from recent solar flares. Sources are saying not so much
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/you-may-have-seen-headlines-linking-the-at-t-outage-to-solar-flares-heres-what-we-know/ar-BB1iJibC
I’d say either a cyber-attack or an update gone wrong.
I’m blaming Microsoft/the deep state for it.
DaveVA THURSDAY, 22 FEBRUARY 2024, 18:12 AT 6:12 PM
Yep, yep, yep…
They were just practicing. No phone, no texting, but did have my puter and e-mail.
And they want me tp switch to the AT&T internet air so I could have then lost that also.
Got any other smart tech that they can shut off???!
Interesting how dependent we are on the cell towers since we dumped the line lines.
If you still have cable internet you can make wifi calls and texting… just enable wifi calling on your phone and connect to your modem/router.
I have AT&T wireless and I am in South-East Georgia. No interruption in service.
Wifi calls are a maybe proposition depending on carrier and phone.
Our iPhones displayed “SOS” for several hours. We could have used for emergency only. Eventually, the ATT logo showed up. While in our own WIFI network, the phones worked a lot like smaller versions of iPads.
It was frustrating, but my parents grew up at a time when electricity and indoor bathrooms were a luxury.
This was part of a test, just not what people think it was. This wasn’t due to solar nonsense either.
I’m enjoying the fact that even though nobody was really affected by the outage people still lost their damn minds.
Expect the same thing but worse for 10 or more days in a row coming soon (before November).
Have food, light, water…etc. because a potential lockdown within the bigger cities might happen.
I think it’ll be some sort of Martial Law scenario especially since there’s predictive programming being exercised with that new movie releasing April 14.
Remember, the people that panic first suffer first.
TSUNAMI
Our family and a couple close family friends have a plan in place. Cell phones or not.
71,000 people without service? That’s less than half the population of Springfield MO.
Who gives a shit? I would care if I were a telco guy who had to deal with it… but no.
I dealt with worse shit than that when I had a Bell truck and some dipshits cut a fiber in Waldorf. I had HUNDREDS of people stop me to tell me the LD didn’t work. No shit. The fags cut the fiber that went to central US and handled all the LD trunking from the east coast. Apparently the telco engineers didn’t take the same class I did on SONET design and placed the A and B sides in the same trench. Usually if you cut a trunk nothing happens. It goes to the spare Titans (or whatever) and spare B path. Or A path. The controllers and Titans switch fast enough not a call gets dropped.
Even D4s were run (the shit I did at ABC) on A and B paths, A and B shelves, A and B power.
Only a shit engineer, and I mean a total piece of shit human being could have one controller down and no fucking service. I get more pissed the more I type. This is horseshit. This is DEI engineering. Fucking MORONS.
They are fucking SCUM.
No Bell System Wire Chief IN THE UNIVERSE would allow such degenerate shit to happen in his wire center. It’s pathetic. Disgusting, embarrassing, and total puke.
We have ATT, not by choice, but because it’s the only service that works where we live. The only one in my family whose phone didn’t work was my husband’s, which I found strange. Many people were on FB though saying their’s didn’t work.
One of my kids said their’s worked until they went into another county and then it stopped working.
THEY needed the Bandwidth for the Moon Landing
Ya’ll are on a time-delay
We have AT&T. Didn’t notice any interruption in service, but probably wouldn’t notice anyway because our coverage is so shitty. There is even a dead area right around the local AT&T store. No joke.
Remember pay phones? Remember no phones? Is there a child alive today that does not believe they cannot survive without a cell phone or “social media”?
I can tell you for a fact that there were no solar outages that affected the satellites.
That used to be part of my business and I’m still in touch with them.
NO solar impact.
Whatever is was was skullduggery… or ineptitude (someone at Mega-Telco tripped over an extension cord)