And before anyone starts the discussion all over again… That’s 70,000 customers who have reported outages on a single site, and is by no means indicative of the total number of customers who are actually without service.
“If we stop counting, then the problem will stay small.” - an “unpresidented” cheeto
Can’t even sign into AT&T to view/report the outage. You can (conveniently enough) sign in to pay your bill if you want. AFAIK, the 70k number is the number of reports at Downdetector. It’s probably 100s of thousands affected, if not millions.
Honestly, that makes sense. Outage reporting service is nice to have. A way to pay your bills is a requirement. They clearly have different SLAs.
$20 says BGP misconfig.
Another 20 on DNS
It’s always DNS.
Yes. Except when it’s BGP.
Edit:
It was BGP
"According to an industry source who spoke on the condition of anonymity, the root of the outage appeared to be related to how cellular services hand off calls from one network to the next, a process known as peering. "
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/22/tech/att-cell-service-outage/index.html
Not only ATT but T-Mobile and Verizon customers too.
Primarily looks to be in the south from what heat maps I saw, kinda sorta near backbone hubs.
Could be a result of shit infrastructure/weather or an attack (which is also a result of shit infrastructure) but no real info afaik has been released.
Didn’t a solar flare just hit us today? I assume that’s the reason
That would disproportionately impact further north not south.
