70,000 AT&T customers were without service this morning across the US
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More than 70,000 AT&T cellular customers reported being unable to connect to service early Thursday morning. While early reports suggested multiple carriers, including Verizon and T-Mobile, seemed to be affected, that appears to be a knock-on effect of a major network going down.
As of late Thursday morning, AT&T had told CNN Business that most of its network had been restored. The Federal Communications Commission, along with other federal agencies, have been in touch with AT&T about the outage, according to CNN.
Service monitoring site Downdetector was showing multiple post-paid and pre-paid carriers as having increased outage reports starting at around 4 am Eastern time. An Ars editor in Texas has seen "SOS" on their iPhone since 4:30 am ET and has been unable to make Wi-Fi calls.