People in major cities like Atlanta,
Houston and Chicago were hit with limited cell and telecommunication
service because of an AT&T outage.
Here is what we know now what happened with this
outage.
10s of thousands of users,
mostly with AT&T cell phones.
Lost connectivity this morning. I think the peak,
which was around 8:00 to 9:00 AM Eastern Time,
there were more than 70 thousand AT&T customers who simply
didn't have connectivity.
When they went to look at their phone,
it said SSOS instead of,
you know, the bars. Besides just cell phone use,
what else was impacted? Well,
if you don't have cell service,
we're so reliant on cell phones now you might not
be able to call 911.
There was a posting on X from the Charlotte Police
Department saying people were not able to reach 911.
I saw other postings like that.