Reports: T-Mobile users experience service outages across US

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

an hour ago

BELLEVUE, Wash. (AP) — Customers of wireless provider T-Mobile US Inc. reported widespread service outages in the U.S. late Monday, according to websites tracking service interruptions.

Posts on Downdetector.com and Product-Reviews.net indicated T-Mobile service outages in multiple areas of the country. Many Twitter users also reported outages.

Numerous posts by users said their service had been changed to “SOS mode,” meaning they were not directly connected to a network but could still make emergency calls.

T-Mobile President of Technology Neville Ray issued a statement about the outage on Twitter early Tuesday.



Read more: https://apnews.com/article/technology-alabama-connecticut-business-fff0dd2ec7be40bf612c09f31bed9e35

---

One of the reasons Marta and I still have a land line. We didn't notice that service was down. But we weren't using our phones at that time of night.

[groundloop]

1. hmmmm.... just now noticed that I don't have service.

Not a big deal though because t-mobile supports wifi calling etc.

[Omaha Steve]

4. You might restart your phone

[judesedit]

2. Florida's T-Mobile/Metro customers had major issues last month.

Little to no service. Same problem?

[ananda]

3. I use Consumer Cellular with an ATT sim card,

which I had changed out from T-Mobile's several
years ago, simply bc ATT's line covers more area.

Glad I did.

[DownriverDem]

5. Over 50?

Get Consumer Cellular. You won't be sorry.

[NullTuples]

6. Didn't notice anything different? (hint: there's a lot behind that statement)

We live in the Bay Area; there are a lot of hills. Our house has line of sight to exactly one T-mobile cell tower. That tower tends to go down any time the outside temperature is above around a hundred degrees Fahrenheit (37.78 C), below around forty-five degrees Fahrenheit (7.23 C), or if the power is glitchy or goes out that day (despite promises to the city when it was put in, there's no functional battery backup & hasn't been since 2-3 years post-install).

It's why we keep our old fashioned copper wire landline. Otherwise I'd take Frontier up on their offer of multi-GB fiber (they say there's no way they can let us have fiber internet and keep our copper phone line. I call BS but I'm digressing enough as it is.).

Can we please, please, please:

a) bring back stringent, consumer friendly industry regulation across all industries

and,

b) confirm President Biden's nominee for the FCC? She's been waiting long enough.

[Mosby]

7. I wonder if the phones could still make calls

Using wifi?

[LeftInTX]

13. Wifi seemed to work..at least for the people on Nextdoor

I'm on AT&T

[NullTuples]

15. We were still able to do so via WiFi when there was zero signal?

Which seems to indicate calls routed via internet service providers are treated differently from ones that come through the cell network.
Interesting...

[AllaN01Bear]

8. going to hang onto my ll as long as i can. even got an old style rotary phone in case the power goes

out.
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTQpCxnD2VYxzz0WtRcQYfxQT3cZG0BhJKymCjwEwEOCA01X3PLx06jG4yMEw&s

[Ellipsis]

9. It's the balloons...

[Kennah]

11. More correctly, the space aliens are using tachyon particles to hide the balloons from us

[MurrayDelph]

10. Fourteen years ago, I lived in the center of the San Fernando Valley

(for those that keep score, we're talking Roscoe and the 405)

and had company phones first from T-Mobile, later from AT&T, that wouldn't work in my house (and they wondered why I kept my personal cell with Verizon).

It's for that reason that now living in the Oregon Coast, I have phone and internet from one provider, satellite TV from another, cell from Verizon, a large DVD collection (in case internet and satellite both go out), and an emergency generator.

[LeftInTX]

12. Speaking of landlines..

Our house is being painted and the guy painting caulked up.the landline jack!

[C Moon]

14. I have phone service, but all my personal info was spread around the world in those 2 hacks.

I like T-Mobile, but grrrr...

[quakerboy]

16. I mean, we keep shooting down their secret floating network devices...

[brooklynite]

17. Didn't notice a thing.

[LudwigPastorius]

18. Thank God corporate mergers give the consumer lower prices and better service!