Nationwide cell phone outage

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11833753

by c4b3r42 • 10 years ago

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No mention on any news site I know yet. Started around 17:00 EST 3 June 2016 http://imgur.com/9I0ZRaA

sbierwagen• 10 years ago

My phone's working.

Image shows outages concentrated in the northeast. What site is it from?

ante_annum• 10 years ago

I think it's http://downdetector.com/

c4b3r422• 10 years ago

That little map is a link to the US map. The outages are in all Major Metropolitans

davelnewton• 10 years ago

Hundreds of reports is a lot different than a "nationwide outage", no?

My phone is also working, Verizon, Westchester County, NY.

c4b3r422• 10 years ago

Hundreds of thousands of reports, and its still going on. If you look at the Verizon map below, it is all over not just NE. http://downdetector.com/status/verizon-wireless/map/ And the fact that all carriers spiked at 17:00 EST is notable as well.

bradhe• 10 years ago

Portland, OR -- T-Mobile is workin' just fine.

Edit: Well, I mean, as fine as T-Mobile ever works anyway.

brudgers• 10 years ago

So just barely better than a poke in the eye with a stick.

ethbro• 10 years ago

Submitted something similar and got flagged. I would think "cell service not working" would be of interest to the hacker community from both network and functional perspectives.

Fwiw, my Cricket phone started experiencing issues around 4pm. Went from working normally to 'network not available' while sitting in the same spot.

Haven't dug out tools to see what it's doing, but seems to join the network after a reboot and then drop off after a short period (failure to transfer data?).

Nationwide cell phone outage

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