AT&T customers report massive outage, disrupting phone service across America | Here's what we know

CNN Wire ^ | February 22, 2024 | ByMelissa Alonso and Brian Fung, CNN, CNNWire

[silent majority rising]

Are we under attack? It is a Nationwide disruption, and no one is talking about what happened. NO email or texts, even 9/11. We are down in Oklahoma, and from the story, West Coast and East coast. Is this a test of our entire communication network?

[hardspunned]

Do the Iranians have the ability to pull something like this off?

[al_c]

More than 73,000 AT&T customers reported outages

And those are just the ones that reported it. Probably twice as many (or more) actual outages.

[BenLurkin]

So far, so good here. Resear hing wha to do in the ev nt of a cybe

[armourenthusiast]

Do you remember when phone service reliability was like 99.89 percent uptime?

[Pontiac]

Just China testing their software.

No need to get excited.

[CIB-173RDABN]

How much of the infrastructure came from China?

[V_TWIN]

If you have hard line internet, for a workaround you can set your phone to “WI-FI CALLING”.

[TornadoAlley3]

We need to brush up on our smoke signals.

[BenLurkin]

[drwoof]

ATT is currently proposing to eliminate its landline service here in California. Sounds like a great idea. I mean, like, why not?

[blackdog]

Just downtime to scrub deep state exposure and Fani Willis nudes.

[eyeamok]

This is just the FBI testing out their toys for the upcoming election, move along, nothing to see...

[chud]

My wife and I are both on AT&T (same plan). My phone works, hers doesn't. We're sitting right next to each other in the same house.
She does have Tik Tok, for the cute pet videos. I don't.

[glorgau]

A glitch in the matrix. It happens when they are resetting something.

[CatOwner]

Any chance your phone has WiFi Calling enabled and hers doesn’t?

[null and void]

Do the Iranians have the ability to pull something like this off?

Yes, as do China, Russia, North Korea, our dear friends the Saudis, Venezuela, Cuba, Mexico...

[chud]

Any chance your phone has WiFi Calling enabled and hers doesn’t?

Neither of us has wi-fi calling enabled.
We both tried enabling it, but it won't enable.

I was able to call and text with friends anyway. Her phone can't make calls or send texts through.
The only difference I can think of is that she has TikTok. I don't.
We're both on Samsung Galaxy phones.

[1Old Pro]

ATT is currently proposing to eliminate its landline service here in California. Sounds like a great idea. I mean, like, why not?

With all this technological progress, I'm contemplating getting a ham license.

[null and void]

Do you remember when phone service reliability was like 99.89 percent uptime?

Before Congress broke up the phone system? Yeah, I do.