[null and void]

It was just reported on the local news. Nationwide outage. It’s not an attack by Russia or China. Remain calm.

Ah, so it's Iran or North Korea? Remain clam.

[dfwgator]

Must be the CIA.

[McGruff]

I had to check:

Cell phones and handheld radios have relatively small antennas. If they are not connected to electrical power supplies during the electromagnetic pulse (EMP) they may not be affected, but they do rely on an intact infrastructure for communications.