Updated
Updated · Asbury Park Press · Jun 29
AT&T Fixes Service Outage After About 200 Reports Hit Internet, Mobile and 5G Home Users
Updated
Updated · Asbury Park Press · Jun 29

AT&T Fixes Service Outage After About 200 Reports Hit Internet, Mobile and 5G Home Users

3 articles · Updated · Asbury Park Press · Jun 29

Summary

  • About 200 outage reports hit AT&T just after 12 p.m. EST, affecting internet, mobile signal and 5G Home Internet users before the disruption quickly eased.
  • By 12:45 p.m. EST, Downdetector showed complaints had nearly fallen to zero, indicating the issue was largely resolved within roughly 45 minutes.
  • AT&T responded on social media with troubleshooting steps as the outage trended on Google, while users also reported some broadband internet problems.
  • The brief disruption appears to have been contained before spreading more widely, with service now largely restored for affected customers.

Insights

With zero-downtime tech available, why do major network outages like AT&T's still happen?
Was the failure of AT&T, X, and Zoom a coincidence, or a sign of a much larger internet weakness?