Large-scale cellular phone outage hits AT&T customers across the US
by Blake Montgomery from Technology | The Guardian on (#6JTC1)
More than 70,000 affected as users of AT&T report disruptions including to emergency service calls
A cellular phone outage hit cities across the US early on Thursday. Thousands of AT&T customers reported service disruptions that rendered them unable to send texts, access the internet or make calls, even to emergency services via 911.
More than 50,000 incidents were reported at about 7am ET, according to data from the outage tracking website Downdetector.com. Outage reports spiked above 70,000 around 9am ET.
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