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Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T Mobile and Verizon users, Downdetector shows::undefined

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (10 children)

Welp, that’s all the users. Thanks, capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

It isn't all the users. It's localized outages across several networks. Also, this is solar flare related, which is cool :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yup. We hit an R3 in space weather conditions over the past 24 hours which means radio comms were impacted.

Space Weather

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Thats enough to mess with low VHF but not enough to disrupt ground to ground UHF.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Is it tho?

Two solar flares happened. We don't know if it caused it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Right. Just as likely it is a new covid variant propagating through the 5g system.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Smh losers I'm on 9G already 😎

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's obviously not as likely...

But it's still stupid to immediately say this was due to solar flares.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago

or if you just check it, it would show a large solar flare impacting radio

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

NOAA says no:

While solar flares can affect communication systems, radar, and the Global Positioning System, based on the intensity of the eruption and associated phenomena, it is highly unlikely that these flares contributed to the widely reported cellular network outages.

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