Supposedly a Cisco software update went wrong and took everything down for a while. That’s the rumor.
I get being surprised about the others being down, but what did you expect from a provider called Cricket Wireless
Cricket shill here. I’ve had cricket for years, it’s affordable and has good perks like free roaming in Mexico and Canada. It’s just an MVNO of ATT last I checked, so if ATT went down cricket would too.
The whole point of having a landline was that it worked when the power was out.
This was a network outage not a power outage.
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Landlines 100% work when your power is out.
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On what, exactly? I have personally had the power go out countless times and always the old land line works.
100% of the time your landlines will work in a power outage. Not dependant on ??? Whatever is being suggested 🙄
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I’m talking pre cell and pre internet domination. My grandma’s house /neighborhood lost power this winter and there was always the reliable old long corded landline that we ordered pizza with as a matter of fact.
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When it was copper they did, because the switch had pretty good power redundancy and backup generators. I live near a large Verizon cell switch and it still has very large generators because an outage there would be way worse than just some towers going down.
Back now, maybe?
The fire sale has begun.
Cue every one of the factory workers at my job to crack jokes about a Chinese invasion all day
I saw on the local news this morning that an AT&T outage meant that people on mobile networks other than AT&T couldn’t call 911 here (San Francisco Bay Area). Their suggested workaround was to make sure you have wifi calling enabled. Okay cool thanks I’ll just make sure that my emergencies only happen in areas with good wifi.
The best part of it too was for Wi-Fi calling, if it was off, couldn’t be turned on since it relied on AT&T’s website/capabilities to approve and authenticate. That was at least my experience as well as my family’s.
So if you hadn’t already enabled it before the outage, you literally couldn’t turn it on.
Thankfully I already had it enabled since the area in and around my house seems like a dead zone for cell phone signal. I only have one bar of signal when I’m inside.
Looks like they need to increase the service fees then. Those poor monopoly telecom companies are hurting so much.
