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Post by farmgirl on Feb 23, 2024 0:01:12 GMT
No way it was a solar flare, solar flares aren't picky, they take out everything. For sure it was a hack, maybe just a test to see if the Chinese/N Koreans had the right tools in place. We use US Cellular, which is on the same towers at AT&T. No problems here. My husband agrees.
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Post by farmgirl on Feb 23, 2024 1:25:48 GMT
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Post by solargeek on Feb 23, 2024 1:26:35 GMT
No way it was a solar flare, solar flares aren't picky, they take out everything. For sure it was a hack, maybe just a test to see if the Chinese/N Koreans had the right tools in place. We use US Cellular, which is on the same towers at AT&T. No problems here. Same for us with U. S. Cellular. However in rural Wisconsin they don’t use AT&T towers because AT&T has pretty much walked away from rural Wisconsin.
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Post by farmgirl on Feb 23, 2024 1:33:07 GMT
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Post by farmgirl on Feb 23, 2024 1:33:43 GMT
We have Verizon and we've had no known issues.
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Post by ohiodreamer on Feb 23, 2024 12:01:01 GMT
AT&T is now saying it was a coding error. News is yelling it wasn't a cyberattack (this time). No idea why they kept saying Verizon and T-Mobile were out too...they never were. Maybe they were trying to make a "Buyable" story in case it was a cyberattack, they had the cover story already in place. YA, better put the tin foil back in the cupboard
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Post by fixitguy on Feb 23, 2024 12:23:52 GMT
My county emergency management put out a statement that said AT&T was down, but 911 services still worked. We have Verizon and didn't notice anything. But honestly, I would have never noticed until about 6 pm when I needed to make a call.
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Post by sawmilljim on Feb 23, 2024 15:26:40 GMT
My county emergency management put out a statement that said AT&T was down, but 911 services still worked. We have Verizon and didn't notice anything. But honestly, I would have never noticed until about 6 pm when I needed to make a call. My AT&T phone was dead as a hammer I don’t believe 911 would work with absolutely no signal of any kind.
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Post by farmrbrown on Feb 24, 2024 1:29:04 GMT
My county emergency management put out a statement that said AT&T was down, but 911 services still worked. We have Verizon and didn't notice anything. But honestly, I would have never noticed until about 6 pm when I needed to make a call. My AT&T phone was dead as a hammer I don’t believe 911 would work with absolutely no signal of any kind. That's what I was trying to figure out but I believe it's true. I know when I bought my 1st phone I read in the manual that if you missed a payment and your phone was cut off, that 911 would still work AND people in big cities yesterday were flooding 911 operators with calls "just to check" if it was working so they had to put out a PSA telling people "Stop doing that!" lol. www.wcnc.com/article/news/verify/sos-emergency-services-iphone-cell/275-0c0620f5-d4db-4624-8abc-389ce383f1fbwww.fcc.gov/sites/default/files/911_wireless_services.pdfIt's hard to know what to believe when they DO finally give an explanation but when I saw AT&T's official statement ( basically an "Ooops, our IT guys screwed up when they downloaded some new software) I tried to remember what I've learned in the past. When a big SNAFU occurs it can be one of two things - Evil Genius or Gross Incompetence. Smart money bets on the 2nd one.
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Post by sawmilljim on Feb 24, 2024 14:34:32 GMT
Farmerbrown my thought was with a missed payment signal was blocked leaving 911 open. This outage was more like the took the tower and melted them for scrap iron. As in no single like their technology went back a hundred years in one glitch. Maybe I’m missing something somewhere ?
Near me there is a spot that has no cell service no signal 99 % of the time. Anyone think 911 will work there ? With no signal how can you leave one part working?
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Post by farmrbrown on Feb 24, 2024 16:54:14 GMT
Farmerbrown my thought was with a missed payment signal was blocked leaving 911 open. This outage was more like the took the tower and melted them for scrap iron. As in no single like their technology went back a hundred years in one glitch. Maybe I’m missing something somewhere ? Near me there is a spot that has no cell service no signal 99 % of the time. Anyone think 911 will work there ? With no signal how can you leave one part working? And that's also true, although the "SOS" system for 911 will work better than the frequencies used for voice communication, the same way there are places I can only text someone because a phone call will be garbled and break up during a call. But that didn't happen when 911 got flooded with calls especially in the big cities. The other thing is, if your cell phone doesn't work because you're in a 'no coverage area'.....then it wouldn't make any difference if the whole system went down for any reason, would it? IOW, in that particular case, you can't blame it on an outage.
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