Reports of outages spiked around 3:30 a.m. ET, reaching more than 71,000 within a few hours. AT&T says it is aware of the problem and 'working urgently to restore service.'
AT&T says it has restored about three-fourths of its cellphone network after tens of thousands of customers in cities across the country lost service overnight, causing frustration and concern about disruptions to 911 dispatches.suddenly spiked from just a handful, peaking at more than 73,000 by around 8:20 a.m. ET. By late morning, however, the number of reports to the website appeared to be trending down.In a statement emailed to NPR at 11:30 a.m.
"We are actively engaged and monitoring this. The San Francisco 911 center is still operational. If you are an AT&T customer and cannot get through to 911, then please try calling from a landline. If that is not an option then please try to get ahold of a friend or family member who is a customer of a different carrier and ask them to call 911 on your behalf. Do not call or text 911 to simply test your phone service," the department said.
The outage did not appear to have any real impact on other providers. Verizon said its network was"operating normally." "Some customers experienced issues this morning when calling or texting with customers served by another carrier," a company statement said.The outages occurred around the same time as a solar flare, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration . The agencythe flare —"an eruption of energy from the Sun that usually lasts from minutes to hours" reached Earth at 1:32 a.m. ET.
NOAA says such flares can affect high-frequency radio signals, but only on the sunlit side of the Earth.City of Carlsbad declares another storm-related emergency'Bracelets for Bancroft' raises money for victims of the recent floods
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