Most reports center on AT&T, which has admitted trouble; T-Mobile, Verizon deny issues

Americans wake to widespread cellular outages, cause unclear::undefined

  • BigMacHole@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    9 months ago

    The cause is OBVIOUSLY that we Taxed them more! THIS is why we need to CUT their Taxes and Lower our Wages!

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    4·
    9 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Updated Residents of the United States woke this morning to find widespread outages in cellular service, with AT&T bearing the brunt of a seemingly nationwide issue.

    T-Mobile US and Verizon, the other two major cell network operators in America, have also seen widespread outage reports, though far fewer in number than AT&T.

    With most of the reports pertaining to AT&T, and T-Mo and Verizon’s denials of anything wrong on their end, the outage appears to be an AT&T issue, which the carrier has confirmed.

    A map of AT&T outage reports shows several major metropolitan areas are affected at the time of publication, including Atlanta, Dallas and Houston.

    Many of those towers were purchased from AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile, making even the largest US cellular providers look more like the small virtual network operators their hardware has classically supported.

    Cloudflare has a graph showing a significant drop off of IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity for AT&T, leading some network administrators to speculate it’s a BGP issue.

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  • Scubus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    9 months ago

    I did hear that it was caused by a solar flare, but I haven’t actually checked that. If it wasn’t a solar flare, I wonder if it could’ve been a case of cyber warfare?

    • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      Unlikely. The most likely cause is that it was caused by a misconfiguration, like someone typo’d a line in a file somewhere, which then propagated outwards when everything downstream got the faulty update.

      If it was a solar flare,or cyberwarfare, it would be more indiscriminate, rather than targeting a specific vendor’s hardware or a single network.

      Edit: Sure enough, it was a botched update.

  • kudu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

    It’s probably the terrorist and now thw Gov need you to install a very normal app to be able to use your phone /s