"... this morning users of AT&T across the nation are reporting widespread outages in their cellphone service. This appears to be confirmed by the current downdetector.com data on reported problems with the cellphone carrier... Twitter users from around the country have confirmed the interruption in service... ...While some have joked that AT&T has activated the downtime to remove embedded CIA eavesdropping features, for now there has been no official statement from AT&T..." http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-11/widespread-att-outages-reported-across-us Three days ago an AT&T glitch caused 911 outage around the country. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/att-glitch-causes-911-outage-around-wide-part-of-us-2017-03-08 "AT&T staying mum on outage that disrupted 911 service" http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/att-staying-mum-outage-disrupted-911-service-46026427 Edit Update: "UPDATE: An AT&T spokeswoman says a nationwide outage has been resolved. A hardware issue had caused some calls not to connect Saturday morning." http://wtop.com/government/2017/03/fcc-probing-atts-wednesday-night-911-outage/
Sigh, is this really fixed yet?--the phone was stuck on "connecting to data network" for 1/2 hour before giving up. Love my dumb phone, my Internet device is far more annoying over the long run.
"12 March: Problems at AT&T AT&T is having issues since 8:52 AM EDT." http://downdetector.com/status/att http://downdetector.com/status/att/map/
Aha, thank you for the info, hawki. Those links are useful if you have ATT service. Stubborn problem, right?
