Posted on 02/22/2024 10:20:49 AM PST by EBH
Two sources briefed on the situation told ABC News that the FBI and Department of Homeland Security (DHS), among other agencies, are now urgently investigating to determine whether the AT&T outages are the result of a cyber attack or a hack, or simply some sort of technical malfunction.
More than 73,000 AT&T customers reported outages on digital-service tracking site DownDetector. That's not a comprehensive number: It tracks only self-reported outages. Although outage reports fell a bit in the 5 am ET hour, they bounced back in the 7 am ET hour and continue to surge.
Several local governments said AT&T's outage was disrupting its services.
San Francisco's Department of Emergency Management said in a statement on X Thursday morning that its 911 center remained operational, but many AT&T customers were unable to reach the emergency line because of the outage. It suggested people call from a landline or find someone with a rival's service to dial 911.
(Excerpt) Read more at abc7chicago.com ...
Not sure where I saw original article but found this
https://www.communityphone.org/blogs/landline-shutdown-fcc-19-72
I’m betting they are under orders to do nothing until after the election. If an attack occurs and it became known the perps came across the border that means a Trump landslide. The ChiComs and the Muzzies do not want that.
It suggested people call from a landline
Hilarious as ATT seeks to eliminate POTS
Additional updates Jeffrey Epstein still killed himself and Russia is trying to smear Hunter Biden.
Seems like a tiny number considering the huge customer base. I haven’t noticed any problem at all and I can switch to internet phone access at home via Wi-Fi
“37,000 Chinese nationals allowed in - that we know of - last year alone”
And now working for the telecom industry.
I had a landline until I found out that it changed from transmitting over its own wires to coming in on the TV cable.
Test run. See how much disruption was caused. Determine how fast the targets reacted. The usual suspects would be: Russia, China, Iran and the Norks. Carried out by 3rd party actors so no fingerprints and plausible deniability but given funding and tech support from one or more of the previously mentioned.
Of course we will never know the real reason. ATT will give some bullsh!t explanation because they’ll be told to. The next time will be much larger and much more disruptive. Think electric and water utilities plus communications.
If it’s the one, I’m thinking of, it was one of the legacy providers wanting to stop supporting copper land lines in more remote areas of California.
For a while, I had no service in northern Connecticut/western mass, then a few areas seems to work, a bit slowly, but once you got out of that one functioning tower again, no service.
My vote is Ukraine did it because they aren’t getting money fast enough. The CIA did set them up as world class hackers
H1B cheap labor strikes again?
Trial balloon?
Get some Ham radios at the ready!
“..Latest spin is solar flare or sunspots (which only affected certain systems and specific areas)...”
Are they serious??
during this outage (which is broader than they are admitting or even know)
* no internet outages reported
* no power outages
* just cell phones
* and wouldn’t the cell carriers be able to detect what happened faster than your friendly, neighborhood alphabet agency?
I’m sticking with ‘dry run’ until someone can prove other wise to me
Or warning shot.
In other words, dear America...we can shut you down any time we want.
Thank you for calling ATT
PS. They were able to take down even the FirstNet service. When it really happens, ain’t nobody coming to help or save you. https://downdetector.com/status/firstnet/map/
I am thinking so. Listening to radio most of the day WTAM 1100. Seems the FBI and DHS are in a bit of a panic. And understandably so as FirstNet is still having problems in multiple big cities.
If anyone doesn’t know what FirstNet is ...it is a system specifically for First Responders. It was set up after 9/11 so they could communicate.
Lost cell service early this morning and couldn’t call out or receive a call. However, surprisingly a spam call managed to get through even though I supposedly had no service . Go figure.
Federal agents investigating - all federal agents do these days is cover up crimes committed by authoritarian leftists.
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