Americans reporting nationwide cellular outages from AT&T, Cricket Wireless and other providers
Americans reporting nationwide cellular outages from AT&T, Cricket Wireless and other providers
A number of Americans are dealing with cellular outages on AT&T, Cricket Wireless, Verizon, T-Mobile and other providers, according to Downdetector.
Looks like they need to increase the service fees then. Those poor monopoly telecom companies are hurting so much.
I saw on the local news this morning that an AT&T outage meant that people on mobile networks other than AT&T couldn't call 911 here (San Francisco Bay Area). Their suggested workaround was to make sure you have wifi calling enabled. Okay cool thanks I'll just make sure that my emergencies only happen in areas with good wifi.
The best part of it too was for Wi-Fi calling, if it was off, couldn't be turned on since it relied on AT&T's website/capabilities to approve and authenticate. That was at least my experience as well as my family's.
So if you hadn't already enabled it before the outage, you literally couldn't turn it on.
Thankfully I already had it enabled since the area in and around my house seems like a dead zone for cell phone signal. I only have one bar of signal when I'm inside.
Supposedly a Cisco software update went wrong and took everything down for a while. That's the rumor.
The whole point of having a landline was that it worked when the power was out.
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When it was copper they did, because the switch had pretty good power redundancy and backup generators. I live near a large Verizon cell switch and it still has very large generators because an outage there would be way worse than just some towers going down.
Cue every one of the factory workers at my job to crack jokes about a Chinese invasion all day
I get being surprised about the others being down, but what did you expect from a provider called Cricket Wireless
The fire sale has begun.
Solar storm started yesterday too. Coincidence?
Back now, maybe?