Its currently unknown what the cause of the outage is.
We dont have an estimated time frame, saidthe help accountin response to another customer.
Most cellular outages seem to be resolved according to Downdetector at 3:15 p.m. Customers of other major U.S. carriers also reported outages in fewer numbers on Thursday morning.
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These includeCricket Mobilewith over 10,000 outages,Verizonwith over 4,000, andT-Mobilewith over 1,900.
Its unclear what the connection is at this time.
Cricket Mobile acknowledged that multiple networks were facing outages in atweet.
Cricket is owned by AT&T and does make use of the same cell towers.
VerizonandT-Mobileboth claim their networks are operating normally, despite thousands of reported service disruptions.
Wifi services from AT&T appeared to be largely unaffected by the service disruption.
AT&T did not immediately respond to Gizmodos request for comment.
T-Mobile experienced a similarly widespread outage last year, where over 80,000 customers reported service disruptions.
In that case, T-Mobile president Neville Ray attributed the issues to a third-party fiber interruption issue.
That February outage was resolved after roughly one day of disruptions.
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