Nationwide cell phone outage

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No mention on any news site I know yet. Started around 17:00 EST 3 June 2016 http://imgur.com/9I0ZRaA

Submitted something similar and got flagged. I would think "cell service not working" would be of interest to the hacker community from both network and functional perspectives.

Fwiw, my Cricket phone started experiencing issues around 4pm. Went from working normally to 'network not available' while sitting in the same spot.

Haven't dug out tools to see what it's doing, but seems to join the network after a reboot and then drop off after a short period (failure to transfer data?).

My phone's working.

Image shows outages concentrated in the northeast. What site is it from?

I think it's http://downdetector.com/

That little map is a link to the US map. The outages are in all Major Metropolitans

Hundreds of reports is a lot different than a "nationwide outage", no?

My phone is also working, Verizon, Westchester County, NY.

Hundreds of thousands of reports, and its still going on. If you look at the Verizon map below, it is all over not just NE. http://downdetector.com/status/verizon-wireless/map/ And the fact that all carriers spiked at 17:00 EST is notable as well.

Portland, OR -- T-Mobile is workin' just fine.

Edit: Well, I mean, as fine as T-Mobile ever works anyway.

So just barely better than a poke in the eye with a stick.

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