Is AT&T down? What you need to know about the outage

By Briley Kenney February 22, 2024

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Starting Thursday morning (February 22), AT&T’s network went down for many U.S. customers, with over 70,000 affected, according to DownDetector. Customers are reporting they’re unable to place calls, send text messages, or access the internet in various capacities. It also appears that AT&T is not the only network experiencing these issues, as some Verizon and T-Mobile customers have also indicated outage and connection issues.

AT&T has not provided the reason why the network is down, and for now, it recommends that all customers take advantage of Wi-Fi calling, if necessary, until services are restored.

While it’s true that nationwide outages such as this are rare, there’s no reason to be concerned anything nefarious is afoot. There’s no indication that this network failure was caused by a cyberattack or malicious actors. However, we will provide updates when more are available.

This story is still developing and will be updated as soon as we know more.

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