AT&T Massive Outage, DHS Under Investigation (Updated)

Updated: February 22, 2024 (5:53 PM ET): ABC News The Department of Homeland Security reports that it is investigating the outage to determine whether it was caused by a technical failure, cyberattack, or hacking. Additionally, the outage appears to have been unique to AT&T, with both T-Mobile and Verizon claiming there were no outages today. Here’s T-Mobile’s statement on the matter:

No power outages occurred. Our network is working properly. DownDetector likely reflects challenges customers were having trying to connect to users on other networks.

You can read the original article on this subject below.

Original article: February 22, 2024 (8:58 a.m. ET): Are you having trouble connecting to Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, or other US carriers? According to DownDetector, all major US wireless networks are currently experiencing major outages. Masu.

Network outages are not uncommon, but it is certainly unusual for so many networks to experience problems at the same time. Verizon, for example, operates on a completely different style of network compared to T-Mobile and AT&T, so it’s interesting that all three go down at the same time.

according to CNBC, AT&T users are most affected by this outage. The data compiled by DownDetector users reflects this, with more reports on his AT&T than Verizon or T-Mobile.

So it’s possible that AT&T is experiencing an outage, and users flocking to DownDetector are posting false reports about other carriers. Considering AT&T’s reporting numbers are currently approaching 75,000, there’s plenty of room for that to happen.

In fact, while both Verizon and T-Mobile claim they are not experiencing network issues, AT&T has issued a statement warning customers about network issues. CNBC. This is not reflected in the DownDetector data, so we don’t know what to believe.

At this time, if you are having problems with your cell phone service in the United States, you will have to wait until the problem is resolved.