Security News > 2020 > February > AT&T insists it's not blocking Tutanota after secure email biz calls foul, cites loss of net neutrality as cause

Encrypted email service Tutanota on Thursday accused US mega-telco AT&T of blocking its service in some parts of America, and cited the service interruption, ongoing for more than two weeks, as evidence for the need for net neutrality.

"Starting on January 25th 2020, we have had constant complaints from AT&T mobile users who were unable to access their encrypted Tutanota mailbox," company co-founder Matthias Pfau, wrote in a blog post on Thursday.

AT&T insists it isn't blocking Tutanota, at least not deliberately, and claims it's trying to address the issue.

"We are aware that some of our customers have reported trouble accessing Tutanota email service," an AT&T spokesperson said in an email to The Register.

Good news - in a statement to The Register on Friday, an AT&T spokesperson said the glitch has been fixed: "We have resolved a communication problem between Tutanota's internet provider and our network that affected some mobile customers' ability to access the email site. There was never any blocking."

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