Re:AT&T customers hit by widespread cellular outages in U.S.
by testfrequency on Thursday February 22, 2024 @09:16AM
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I don’t have anything positive to add, except noting that FirstNet is also down. I’m sure there’s a lot of chaos for emergency responders right now :/
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Re:AT&T customers hit by widespread cellular outages in U.S.
by relbeek2 on Thursday February 22, 2024 @10:05AM
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> FirstNet is also down
CNN reported that AT&T confirmed it has not been impacted throughout this event.
https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/att-outage-02-22-24/i...
Re:AT&T customers hit by widespread cellular outages in U.S.
by EvanAnderson on Thursday February 22, 2024 @06:05PM
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FirstNet absolutely went down in my locality (western Ohio, near Dayton). I was on shift for after hours support of a public safety answering point (AKA a 911 center) and I received a call at 04:14 Eastern stating that all the law enforcement/fire mobile units on FirstNet disconnected from the VPN and that no FirstNet cell phones could make/receive calls or send/receive text messages.
Re:AT&T customers hit by widespread cellular outages in U.S.
by lionkor on Thursday February 22, 2024 @09:21AM
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If FirstNet is down that would mean a lot more is down than should be. FirstNet can operate on lower range radio, no?
Re:AT&T customers hit by widespread cellular outages in U.S.
by maxsilver on Thursday February 22, 2024 @09:28AM
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It can (FirstNet's lower 700mhz spectrum), but AT&T uses the same backbone and infrastructure and towers for large chunks of their and FirstNet's network.
(charitably) - FirstNet is mostly now just a type of billing plan and priority level, on AT&T's network.