Security News > 2024 > February > Massive AT&T outage impacts US mobile subscribers
Tens of thousands of U.S. customers from Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T are complaining Thursday morning about the lack of wireless service or interruptions to service.
"The San Francisco Fire Department published a"cell phone service outage" announcement saying that "AT&T wireless customers can't make or receive any phone calls, although the 911 center is operational.
Network services provider Cloudflare notes today that AT&T recorded significant data loss in traffic starting 08:48 UTC, affecting AT&T subscribers in multiple U.S. cities.
Other AT&T users in California, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, and South Carolina, say that they have no mobile service.
A banner on AT&T's forum informs that the company is "Aware of an outage currently impacting our Mobility users and are working to resolve it ASAP.".
An AT&T representative told BleepingComputer that service interruptions this morning are affecting some of its customers and that the company is "Working urgently to restore service to them."
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