Was the AT&T outage a mistake?

Could it have been a test for future planning purposes?

Curious as to others thoughts.

 

Not certain. It involved most other providers as well

 

What happened?

 

Nationwide cellular/internet outages

 

Here's an article i read on it.

Mid-Michigan customers affected by nationwide cell service outages, includes Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile

 

Huh, been using my phone for work all day no issues.

 

No phone calls here Good thing I learned how to text!

 

Naw...don't think they'd do something like that, would they?

I mean, that'd be like telling everyone they have to shelter in place in addition to closing your churches, schools, cancelling travel plans and force millions to choose between their jobs and vaccinations, wearing "protective gear" that is proven not to be effective.

 

Mine was out about 6 this morning...service through Cricket, which I thought used Verizon towers, but now I read its AT&T, so I guess that makes sense...I dunno what time it came back, but by mid morning it was back, and I did not see it go out again.

 

I read it was on att and those that use att only. I just switched green att that I had due 23 years. I'm on spectrum which is Verizon now.

 

I had no service for a few hours this morning but it didn't bother me at all. I rarely us my cell phone and i is off most of the time. Land lines still worked this morning.

 

Most people don't have land lines anymore. I haven't had a land line since my parents had one 20+ yrs ago. Heck even our work doesn't have traditional phones. We have desk phone numbers, but they are tied to our laptops and Microsoft teams. When I work from home, it's the same phone number and connection as when I hook up the laptop at work. We have headsets for phone use and those work wherever we are connected to the Internet.

 

Me too. I didn't find out about it until after I logged off from work and went to my town FB page.

 

Here's the reason. No cyber attack or sunspots.
AT&T reveals likely cause of outage that affected customers nationwide

 

I stopped believing or watching the “news” some time ago. I think it was around Covid.

 

Yup, if'n a guy wants to watch fiction, I'd rather a movie!

 

I hear you, but I'm going to believe this nugget as it's pretty plausible.

Some of the stuff reported on the news is definitely suspect.

 

Wonder if we'll scramble and get it before it disappears over the Atlantic...