AT&T customers report wireless service has been down for hours

AT&T seems to beryllium experiencing immoderate issues close present that are leaving customers seeing “SOS” alternatively of their accustomed bars of service.

According to The Mobile Report, AT&T has recovered internally that a nonaccomplishment astatine a switching halfway “has resulted successful a cascade of problems, including work delays, the inability to proviso caller SIM cards, and, for many, a implicit nonaccomplishment of web connectivity” that whitethorn chiefly impact iPhones and different Apple devices. Users connected Reddit person besides reported work issues connected immoderate Android devices.

On Tuesday afternoon, determination was besides a spike successful idiosyncratic reports on Downdetector. There has been a dip successful reports since the peak, but portion penning this article, the Downdetector graph has started to creep up again.

AT&T spokesperson Jim Kimberley tells The Verge that helium is looking into what mightiness beryllium going on. Apple didn’t instantly reply to a petition for comment.

This outage is happening conscionable 1 time aft AT&T announced it would wage $950,000 to settee an FCC investigation implicit a 911 outage successful August 2023, and conscionable aft AT&T reported a enactment stoppage by the Communications Workers of America successful the Southeast during negotiations.