Cell Service Outage

[rjthehunter]

How many on here are without cell service now?

It's interesting that it seems to be concentrated at major cities.

No issues where I'm at, but I hear in the southern half of MN there's issues.

AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile customers hit by widespread cellular outages in U.S.

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.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[Nick87]

I got service.

 

[NR_Hunter]

Elko, MN. No issues here.

 

[sccritterkiller]

ATT laid of almost 11k workers last year..I am sure that has nothing to do with this. Since 2018 they have cut 40% of their workforce..As large as the outage its a software problem. Gonna be interesting to see how long it takes them to fix it....My Verizon is fine.

 

[Gellar]

11 miles from Minnesota southern border, Verizon, no issues. I was on my phone at 4:15am sending emails and preparing for the day, no issues.

 

[TheTone]

No issues at home but service around me can be so bad I might not even notice a problem

 

[Jamen]

ND no service since 4am when i got up.

 

[Shangobango]

Spotty in Louisiana. Working from home today so want to give a big shoutout to Elon for hoodooing me into having to go ahead and work today…

 

[HuntTalk Freak]

East TX, wife has none but I have three bars, both on ATT. Weird.

 

[Ben Nicholson]

ATT is working in Eastern Iowa.

 

[WinkB]

So is the media blowing this out of proportion? If we use Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mobile_network_operators_in_the_United_States Between the big three there are 506 about million lines. If we say that 100K are down. That is less than 0.002% of the lines. If a major storm rolls through any part of the country you will see more impacted lines.

I agree it is a problem for those impacted but is it really that bad in comparison to other events? I am not saying it should happen or a mistake was made. I am just having a hard time understanding why the media is portraying this like the end of days. It is highly probable that I don't have all the information to make an educated statement.

 

[rjthehunter]

So is the media blowing this out of proportion? If we use Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mobile_network_operators_in_the_United_States Between the big three there are 506 about million lines. If we say that 100K are down. That is less than 0.002% of the lines. If a major storm rolls through any part of the country you will see more impacted lines.

I agree it is a problem for those impacted but is it really that bad in comparison to other events? I am not saying it should happen or a mistake was made. I am just having a hard time understanding why the media is portraying this like the end of days. It is highly probable that I don't have all the information to make an educated statement.

The 100k is just ones that reported. I'd venture to guess that most people don't report it. Especially when they see the headlines in the news.

 

[LuketheDog]

Can we just go ahead and get rid of all the cell phones now?

 

[rjthehunter]

Can we just go ahead and get rid of all the cell phones now?

I was on the phone with my girlfriend this morning talking about this, and that was part of the conversation. Wouldn't life be a lot easier and more relaxing if phones just went away?

 

[Shangobango]

Wouldn't life be a lot easier and more relaxing if phones just went away?

Most definitely.

 

[WildWill]

East TX, wife has none but I have three bars, both on ATT. Weird.

Ours was the same but reversed here in SE Oklahoma. Mine was out from when I got up around 5am till around 2pm wife never had a problem. Definitely thought it was weird two phones same plan only one effected.

 

[HuntTalk Freak]

Ours was the same but reversed here in SE Oklahoma. Mine was out from when I got up around 5am till around 2pm wife never had a problem. Definitely thought it was weird two phones same plan only one effected.

Yeah I never had a problem but I never left the house until it was time to pick up my daughter.

 

[buckbull]

Mine was down for about 5 minutes. My son away at college was down most of the day.

 

[Wyhunter]

Powerful twin solar flares erupt from sun as cell phone outages spike across US (video)

Tens of thousands of outages were reported by major cellular carriers throughout the United States after a pair of powerful solar flares erupted from the sun on Feb. 21 and Feb. 22.

www.yahoo.com

Just came across this article

 

[Hem]

Some of us remember before...
I could handle it.