Over 50,000 AT&T outages were reported at about 7 a.m. ET Thursday, with most issues reported in Houston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, and Atlanta, according to tracking site Downdetector.

Over 50,000 AT&T outages were reported at about 7 a.m. ET Thursday, with most issues reported in Houston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, and Atlanta, according to tracking site Downdetector.

AT&T’s network suffered a widespread outages across the country Thursday morning with cellular service and internet down, according to the tracking site Downdetector.

Some Verizon and T-Mobile customers also reported outages, though theirs appeared to be less widespread than AT&T.

Over 32,000 AT&T outages were reported by customers at about 4 a.m. ET Thursday. Reports dipped then spiked again to more than 50,000 around 7 a.m., with most issues reported in Houston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, and Atlanta, according to the site.

That number surged to more than 71,000 just before 8 a.m. ET.

A little over 1,100 T-mobile outages and about 3,000 Verizon outages were reported as of 7 a.m. Thursday.

It’s not clear what triggered the service disruption.

    • @Rapidcreek
      6•10 months ago

      That’s just the report number. It’s a pretty large report number. During the wireline days, if you got that kind of number the President of the company had to appear in person at the FCC offices within 24 hours to explain it.

      • ares35
        4•10 months ago

        afaik, cellular is (still) not obligated to the same service standards as pots.

        • @Rapidcreek
          2•10 months ago

          Not exactly. Mobile service has higher downtime and outages are more localized usually. If a mobile cell goes down, not a big deal on outage report. But, if you have a wireline CO failure, that’s a problem. In addition, there is a difference in user perception, so mobile is less reported.