{"id":11518,"date":"2024-02-22T10:08:49","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T10:08:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"Americans-reporting-nationwide-cellular-outages-from-AT&T-Cricket-Wireless-and-other-providers-54142319\/","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nne-concord-monitor-2.newspackstaging.com\/?p=11518","title":{"rendered":"Why won\u2019t my\u00a0cell phone work? Nationwide outages reported from AT&T, Cricket Wireless and other providers\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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FILE – A man uses a cell phone in New Orleans on Aug. 11, 2019. 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, Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024. (AP Photo\/Jenny Kane, File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>

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.<\/p>\n

AT&T had more than 73,000 outages around 9:30 a.m. ET, in locations including Houston, Atlanta and Chicago. The outages began at approximately 3:30 a.m. ET. The carrier has more than 240 million subscribers, the country\u2019s largest.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of our customers are experiencing wireless service interruptions this morning. We are working urgently to restore service to them. We encourage the use of Wi-Fi calling until service is restored,\u201d AT&T said in a statement.<\/p>\n

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 1,800 outages. Boost Mobile had about 700 outages.<\/p>\n

\u201cVerizon\u2019s network is operating normally. Some customers experienced issues this morning when calling or texting with customers served by another carrier. We are continuing to monitor the situation,\u201d Verizon said.<\/p>\n

T-Mobile said that it did not experience an outage.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur network is operating normally. Down Detector is likely reflecting challenges our customers were having attempting to connect to users on other networks,\u201d T-Mobile said.<\/p>\n

Some iPhone users have seen SOS messages displayed in the status bar on their cellphones. The message indicates that the device is having trouble connecting to their cellular provider\u2019s network, but it can make emergency calls through other carrier networks, according to Apple Support.<\/p>\n

So far, no reason has been given for the outages.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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