Widespread cellular outage yesterday

[HCHTech]

Many cellular carries had outages at the same time yesterday from about 9pm (EST) to about midnight (EST). I suppose this means Verizon, T-Mobile & AT&T, since all of the other carriers piggy back on their services. Still, unusual that they were all affected. All the graphs on downdetector look the same - haha. What infrastructure to they have in common?

 

[River Valley Computer]

Many cellular carries had outages at the same time yesterday from about 9pm (EST) to about midnight (EST). I suppose this means Verizon, T-Mobile & AT&T, since all of the other carriers piggy back on their services. Still, unusual that they were all affected. All the graphs on downdetector look the same - haha. What infrastructure to they have in common?

Probably a signal blocking Chinese balloon!!!! Funny - havve not heard a word on national news about it.

 

[nlinecomputers]

What infrastructure to they have in common?

All the Tier 1 networks. AT&T, GTT, Lumen (Level 3 and CenturyLink), T-Mobile and Verizon.

 

[nlinecomputers]

Many cellular carries had outages at the same time yesterday from about 9pm (EST) to about midnight (EST). I suppose this means Verizon, T-Mobile & AT&T, since all of the other carriers piggy back on their services. Still, unusual that they were all affected. All the graphs on downdetector look the same - haha. What infrastructure to they have in common?

How did you hear about that? I didn’t notice anything.

 

[HCHTech]

How did you hear about that? I didn’t notice anything.

Reddit post in r/sysadmin. I didn't notice anything either - of course it was well after-hours.

 

[britechguy]

Definitely did not affect T-Mobile in my area. My smartphone is my mobile hotspot as well, and I was setting up a new smartphone last night throughout that period.

 

[phaZed]

Verizon was fine, for me. Looks like it was just limited to T-Mobile:

Reports: T-Mobile users experience service outages across US

Customers of wireless provider T-Mobile US Inc. reported widespread service outages in the U.S. late Monday

abcnews.go.com

 

[nlinecomputers]

Verizon was fine, for me. Looks like it was just limited to T-Mobile:

Reports: T-Mobile users experience service outages across US

Customers of wireless provider T-Mobile US Inc. reported widespread service outages in the U.S. late Monday

abcnews.go.com

That is not what the reports on r/sysadmin were saying. Downdetector supposedly showed outages for all the carriers.

 

[phaZed]

"Downdetector also reported thousands of reports of services of other U.S. wireless carriers Verizon Inc (VZ.N) and AT&T Inc (T.N) being down. The website showed more than 2,000 unresolved incident reports for Verizon and more than 1,200 for AT&T at the peaks."

It's likely those were roaming customers.. 2K and 1.2K,respectfully, isn't very much for "the country" at large..

T-Mobile outage hits users across the U.S.

T-Mobile users across the United States reported network outages late on Monday, according to an outage tracking website, as the company said it was quickly addressing a disruption that had affected some cellular services.

www.reuters.com