Massive Cell Phone Outages across US

AT&T has been having layoffs within the last month and supposedly more layoffs coming up in the next month. Could there be a connection?
 
perplexed said:
It is a tracfone and i don't know what carrier they use.
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Tracfone doesn't have its own cellular network. It leases bandwidth from Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T.

With the outage, they said to just connect to Wi-Fi and it would work.
 
According to World News Tonight, AT&T claims the outage was due to a software update. But what doesn't make sense to me is why would a software update cause problems mainly in major cities and not country wide? T mobile claims that the problems they had were with calls to AT&T customers.
 
Roadwarrior said:
Yesterday while waiting for text from wife when she was scheduled to land (flying in for SIL's funeral). DD got a text but not me. We have Consumer Cell (understand they piggyback on the AT&T towers). Was able to finally get a text after 2 hours. Not much of an issue but good to know.
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I don't know if I said it before Roadwarrior but my condolences to your family in the loss of your SIL. May you wife have safe travels.
 
Software updates can cause issues due to compatibility problems or bugs, it's unusual for them to be geographically specific. :unsure: Maybe they started the software update in stages, starting with major cities, and encountered problems.? Or the update interacted differently with the network in urban areas compared to rural areas, then it would be more localized.?
 
I just read a blurb that telephone companies want to get rid of land lines. It costs a lot to keep that wire, which goes to your home, working. They want to phase landlines out. It think it's outdated technology. Maybe, it's past its prime???
 
fuzzybuddy said:
I just read a blurb that telephone companies want to get rid of land lines. It costs a lot to keep that wire, which goes to your home, working. They want to phase landlines out. It think it's outdated technology. Maybe, it's past its prime???
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They'll have to pry my landline out of my cold, wrinkled hands. What's going to catch my junk calls?
And what communication when the cells are all out of service?
 
If it was only AT&T that had issues, then it was definitely not from the sun flare because there is no way it would affect some cell calls and not others that were from a different cell company.
There were apparently some cyber attacks happening, so it is hard to tell if the cell phone blackouts were part of that or not, and we are not always told the truth of what happened.
 
There are approximately 250,000,000 cellphone users in the U.S. I donā€™t think 32,000 should be considered as massive.

Here in PA, our phones are up and running.
 
hearlady said:
They'll have to pry my landline out of my cold, wrinkled hands. What's going to catch my junk calls?
And what communication when the cells are all out of service?
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I agree. My landline worked when the cable TV and internet went out in a storm. But now, my land line works off my router, and if there's no electricity, my landline won't work.

"AT&T, along with other providers of landline phones, will be actively phasing out their landline services soon in response to the FCC Landline Shutdown Order 19-72."
 
OneEyedDiva said:
I've been reading for weeks about possible mass outages due to solar flares. In fact I posted something about it in a thread here and somebody "poo-pooed" it. This could well have been a cyber attack though. There has been news that the US has intel about (foreign) bad actors who intend to target our infrastructure.
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Some will poo- poo that idea and call it a witch hunt. And say, why would they (usually Russia) want to do that. šŸ¤£
 
fuzzybuddy said:
I agree. My landline worked when the cable TV and internet went out in a storm. But now, my land line works off my router, and if there's no electricity, my landline won't work.

"AT&T, along with other providers of landline phones, will be actively phasing out their landline services soon in response to the FCC Landline Shutdown Order 19-72."
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Guess I'll have to go to CB radio.
Our landline works off the router too. šŸ˜
 
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911 said:
There are approximately 250,000,000 cellphone users in the U.S. I donā€™t think 32,000 should be considered as massive.

Here in PA, our phones are up and running.
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32,000 was just one company. Other companies were involved and the reach was to Montreal.
 

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