AT&T and Verizon customers primarily in the Northeast and Midwest in the US have had issues calling and texting.
AT&T and Verizon customers began reporting outages around noon ET on Tuesday Many AT&T and Verizon customers were left unable to make calls – including to 911 – as the cell phone providers experienced outages. Around noon ET on Tuesday, AT&T and Verizon users reporting problems and the volume of issues escalated over the next few hours, according to DownDetector. Some AT&T customers could not get through the 911 line.
At least 24 states were affected by the outage, according to the Daily Mail. Specific issues included dropped calls, not being able to hear the person on the other line and even internet connectivity issues. Verizon last experienced an outage in January The number of outage reports began declining for AT&T around 5.30pm ET and was down to about 680 around 7pm ET. Verizon had a similar pattern, with outage reports dropping steeply after 5pm ET and numbering just over 100 at 7pm ET.
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