Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T Mobile and Verizon users, Downdetector shows

L4sBot@lemmy.worldmod to Technology@lemmy.world – 105 points – AT&T cellular outage in United States disrupts vital services
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Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T Mobile and Verizon users, Downdetector shows::undefined

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A communication disruption can mean only one thing: INVASION!

I was over at Down Detector’s disqus comments. You’d be surprised how many people were saying that. Some said Russia, others said China. I said, it’s The Spanish Inquisition!

Where I live our power went out for about six hours. One of the people I know said it was the Chinese invading.

It was a tree falling over the power lines.

And I'm going t put this in--she is a MAGA freak.

They don't think anything can happen for a reason other than invasion.

Scared people who watch Fox, News Max, News Nation.

Welp, that’s all the users. Thanks, capitalism.

It isn't all the users. It's localized outages across several networks. Also, this is solar flare related, which is cool :)

Yup. We hit an R3 in space weather conditions over the past 24 hours which means radio comms were impacted.

Space Weather

Thats enough to mess with low VHF but not enough to disrupt ground to ground UHF.

Is it tho?

Two solar flares happened. We don't know if it caused it.

Right. Just as likely it is a new covid variant propagating through the 5g system.

It's obviously not as likely...

But it's still stupid to immediately say this was due to solar flares.

or if you just check it, it would show a large solar flare impacting radio

NOAA says no:

While solar flares can affect communication systems, radar, and the Global Positioning System, based on the intensity of the eruption and associated phenomena, it is highly unlikely that these flares contributed to the widely reported cellular network outages.

Wait - the article you linked clearly says AT&T only, not other services. It also sites an AT&T spokesperson blaming a software upgrade on their network as the cause. So any other outages at other providers would be completely coincidental.

Most likely people trying to call/txt ATT customers and thinking it's their service.