Amidst our highly connected lives, a nationwide outage from one of the major cellular providers in the USA is happening again as of today, June 4, 2024.
In a statement sent to CNN, AT&T said a problem is preventing several of their customers from completing calls between carriers. Yes, that actually means that if you’re on Verizon or T-Mobile, you won’t be able to contact an AT&T subscriber.
Some calls however continue to go through without issue. “The carriers are working as quickly as possible to diagnose and resolve the issue,” a company spokesperson said.
AT&T has not shared any numbers, but according to the website Down Detector shows reports of issues starting around 1:00 pm ET and they slowly climbed from that point.
Among the affected cities is New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, Pittsburgh and Indianapolis. These are showing the most issue reports.
Due to the issues between carriers, Down Detector also showed a spike in reports from thousands of Verizon customers.
Thankfully, it was reported that 911 calls are going through. Although there were some social media posts that begged to differ. It was found that these ‘down alerts’ that users were receiving were by accident and AT&T is currently looking into this further.
