AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile customers hit by widespread cellular outages in U.S.
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Over 50,000 AT&T outages were reported at about 7 a.m. ET Thursday, with most issues reported in Houston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, and Atlanta, according to tracking site Downdetector.

Over 50,000 AT&T outages were reported at about 7 a.m. ET Thursday, with most issues reported in Houston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, and Atlanta, according to tracking site Downdetector.

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.

Over 32,000 AT&T outages were reported by customers at about 4 a.m. ET Thursday. Reports dipped then spiked again to more than 50,000 around 7 a.m., with most issues reported in Houston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, and Atlanta, according to the site.

That number surged to more than 71,000 just before 8 a.m. ET.

A little over 1,100 T-mobile outages and about 3,000 Verizon outages were reported as of 7 a.m. Thursday.

It’s not clear what triggered the service disruption.

  • tyler@programming.dev
    111·
    9 months ago

    You should reset your network settings on your phone. I have T-Mobile and it’s by far the best network I’ve used. If you’re in the deep countryside then you’ll have issues. You shouldn’t be seeing issues like that at all.

    • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
      51·
      9 months ago

      I have to reset the network configs about once a month because VoLTE just stops working, and that’s the only fix. I’ve been through FCC complaints, customer service, case manager, etc. There are 3 towers visible from my house, and I can throw a rock and hit one of them.

      • ObsidianZed@lemmy.world
        51·
        9 months ago

        Sounds like you have other problems but I want to say there’s such a thing as being too close to a tower as well.

      • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        That was my experience as well. Switched to AT&T which has its own problems but at least it’s consistent. I absolutely hate that AT&T basically has an allow list of phones that reliably work on their network.

    • Iamdanno@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      As an alternate viewpoint, I had T-Mobile for years, and I couldn’t keep a phone call connected for more than 10 minutes. If I travelled across the metro area (about 600K people), the call would drop 4 times from one side of the city to the other. Since I got on Verizon, it’s been bulletproof. I imagine these things are very location-dependent.

      • icedterminal@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        9 months ago

        Definitely location dependent. It’s all about who has the better cell tower location(s) and how many are present. Sometimes they don’t overlap enough or they are in a poor location.