Thousands of Americans are dealing with cellular outages on AT&T, Cricket Wireless, Verizon, T-Mobile and other service providers Thursday, according to data from Downdetector.
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A number of Americans are dealing with cellular outages on AT&T, Cricket Wireless, Verizon, T-Mobile and other service providers, according to data from Downdetector.
AT&T had more than 64,000 outages this morning in locations including Houston, Atlanta and Chicago. The outages began about 2:30 a.m. The carrier has more than 240 million subscribers, the country’s largest.
Cricket Wireless had more than 13,000, the outage tracking website said Thursday. Verizon had more than 4,000 outages and T-Mobile had more than 1,900 outages. Boost Mobile had about 700 outages.
Chicago’s Office of Emergency Management and Communications issued a statement about the outages Thursday morning.
“OEMC is aware of the issue impacting AT&T wireless customers from making and receiving calls (including to 911). We are monitoring the situation closely and taking appropriate action,” OEMC said.
“The 911 center is still operational. Please do not call 911 to simply test your service. If you are an AT&T customer and unable get through to 911, try calling from a landline OR try to get ahold of a friend or family member who is a customer of a different carrier and ask them to call 911 on your behalf.”
So far, no reason has been given for the outages. Representatives for AT&T, Verizon and Cricket weren’t immediately available to comment,