02/22/2024

AT&T Cellphone Outage Hits Many Customers Nationwide

The outage lasted for several hours

Thursday morning, a nationwide cell service outage prevented some AT&T customers from making or receiving calls, including emergency calls.

Outages on the AT&T network and its discount carrier, Cricket Wireless, began spiking in the early morning hours and quickly grew to tens of thousands of reports on the website DownDetector, peaking shortly after 9 a.m. Eastern time and gradually decreasing for the rest of the morning.

Shortly after 11 a.m., AT&T said service was back for most people. "Three-quarters of our network has been restored," said company spokesman Jim Greer in a statement. "We are working as quickly as possible to restore service to remaining customers."

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