Possible Cause Revealed for Nationwide Mobile Phone Outage
Early Thursday, a significant mobile phone service disruption impacted users across the United States, even hindering some police departments from receiving 911 calls. AT&T appeared to be the most affected, with nearly 32,000 reported issues around 4:30 a.m., as per data from DownDetector, a platform that monitors outages by gathering status reports from various sources, including user-submitted errors. T-Mobile and Verizon also experienced over 800 service disruptions, although a Verizon representative attributed this to users …