Major telecom services Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T down for users: Reports
- Internet services of Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T are down
- Tens of thousands of users worldwide without connection to the internet
- Outages for the trio began around 11:30 am EST
Mobile internet services on all major telecom operators in the United States — Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T — are currently down, leaving tens of thousands of users worldwide without connection to the web, according to US media reports.
Outages for the trio began around 11:30 am EST, with most customers citing issues with mobile internet, Daily Mail reported.
Users are reporting that their cellphones connect to the internet via WiFi but not via cellular data.
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All outages are focused in major US cities, including New York City, Los Angeles, California, and Dallas, Texas, with problems also occurring in the United Kingdom and portions of Europe.
Reports for each of the cellular networks began to appear within minutes after all of Facebook’s applications broke, according to Down Detector, an internet site that tracks outages.
The news of the outage comes after social media platforms Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, along with Amazon Web Services, have also suffered a similar fate earlier in the day.
Users all over the globe experienced outages as the applications stopped working on both the web and smartphones. This happened with Android, iOS and web platforms.
For Facebook users, they were redirected to an error page with a message reading on the screen, saying that their browser could be connected.
As per reports, DownDetector reported a quick spike in the number of cases of WhatsApp not working for users on October 4. The same issue was observed with Instagram, as well. The outage happened at roughly 9.15 pm IST.
Some speculate that the outages are connected, but none of the companies has confirmed.
At the time of writing this article, the servers continued to remain down.
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