AT&T is experiencing a nationwide outage
A number of Americans are dealing with cellular outages on AT&T, Cricket Wireless, Verizon, T-Mobile and other service providers, according to data from Downdetector.
The Associated Press reports that AT&T had more than 70,000 outages this morning, in locations including Houston, Atlanta and Chicago.
Cricket Wireless had more than 11,000, the outage tracking website said Thursday. Verizon had more than 3,000 outages and T-Mobile had more than 1,000 outages. Boost Mobile had more than 450 outages.
So far, no reason has been given for the outages. Text messaging does seem to still be operational.
Harrison County Sheriff Matt Haley said they believe it is affecting calls — the are experiencing a lower volume of calls — but it’s hard to say by how much.
Waveland uses C-Spire and is not experiencing any issues.