Mass reports of cellphone service outages Thursday morning: What you need to know

Published February 22, 2024 12:56pm ET



Cellphone carrier AT&T is experiencing a massive outage, as the top carriers are seeing mass reports of service outages, according to data from Downdetector.

At approximately 3:35 a.m. on Thursday, top carriers such as AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon began experiencing an abnormally high number of outage reports. The outages reported also affected Mint Mobile, Cricket Wireless, TracFone, U.S. Cellular, Boost Mobile, and other smaller providers. Many smaller carriers share phone towers or are subsidiaries of a larger provider.

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