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Cell service outage spike in US

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34 points by framebit · 9 comments

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g_sch

Does the cell network have a single point of failure which could explain these concurrent outages across carriers? I have a (somewhat crude) mental model of how the internet works, so if this were a nationwide internet outage I would at least have an inkling of whether it was an accidental misconfiguration, bad actor launching an attack, etc. I have no such model for the cell network!

theodric

Tinfoil hat theory: government trying to disrupt protests by breaking down communications and disrupting live streams

joecool1029

Its a fiber cut on zayo, fuckin heyyyy-yo: https://tranzact.zayo.com/#!/networkStatus

geoelectric

The DDOS on the Anonymous twitter might be relevant given timing. All happened around an hour ago.

https://twitter.com/YourAnonCentral/status/12726345485771653...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23533311

bradleypowers

It appears to be only T-Mobile that is down presently (https://twitter.com/NevilleRay/status/1272624569707184128), likely that those making calls to T-Mobile phones are representing outages on their networks.

blhack

Yeah this is something. They all seem to have started at the same time.

ADent

Just got one of those annoying alerts on my phone. Saying “Loccal cell phone carriers are experiencing outages” and an alternative number for 9-1-1 calls.

framebitOP

As of right now looks like AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, and many others.

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