No clue, but for every AT&T user in this area, I’m guessing there are 5 Verizon users.
Since this may be the start of the zombie apocalypse, if I may pass on a great comment I saw yesterday… any zombie movie will no longer seem realistic unless there are crowds of people running toward the zombies trying to get bitten because they think it’s a Liberal hoax.
Well, the ZA hasn’t made it to China yet. That’s what I glean from the fact my cell phone has service.
AT&T in the SFBA CA USA. All systems are a Go.
Tried to call out from southern Minnesota, got “no network connection, emergency calls only”. Text messages only get a “Sending” waiting notification.
No mobile service in Fort Worth, noticed it about 3:30amCT. Using AT&T and a Galaxy S20. No issues with AT&T fiber internet this morning so (for better or worse) I can still work today. The VOIP stuff is running just fine.
My Consumer Cellular uses AT&T cell service and it is out. Went out about 6AM. Almost 4 hours ago.
Little Rock area
ok this explains why I’m seeing a tons of staff (nationwide) doing test pings on our crisis response service at work. For a few minutes I thought we were having some black swan event. Glad to know it’s just, um… all of AT&T? That’s still not great.
Verified that my Boost Mobile is still working, when I remembered I have a landline I could use as a test call recipient. No reason to think DH has any problem with his phone (same carrier and model).
SE Michigan here-- we are on Cricket, which uses the AT&T network. Still down as of 11:15 EST.
First thing my son said this morning was ‘it’s a cyberattack!’
The CNN article that @Seanette shared upthread says:
There’s no indication that Thursday’s outage was the result of a cyberattack or other malicious activity, the industry source said.
…but who knows if AT&T would admit if it was. Not to suggest anything or start any untoward rumors, just sayin’.
Funny how, if it was the internet that was down I’d be a lot more ‘oh noes, the sky is falling’, but with the phone down yet internet just fine, my attitude is more 'eh, kinda nice not to have a ringing phone for awhile".
Chicagoland here. No cell or messaging service available, just the “SOS” flag.
Russian satellite. ElectroMagnetic Pulse.
Just sayin’…
[adjusts aluminum foil ball cap…]
Verizon, Finger Lakes area NY state. Just called my landline from my cell and it rang just fine.
Maybe we finally figured out what this switch does… 
Verizon, inside my warehouse in Boise ID 5 bars of LTE
A few years ago, I would have said the difference between ATT and VZW was the cell technology but I think they’ve sort of converged these days, haven’t they?
Or maybe AT&T should check their garage for any switches that got shut off:
If you didn’t say “The call is coming from inside the house!” I will be deeply disappointed.
Update: we’re just now back up in the SE Michigan area. Can call and text again.
I’m watching my mid day channel 7 news. The lead story is the widespread AT&T outage. I’m still out at almost noon.
Back up in Dallas. My wife’s phone was working fine, so I restarted mine, and it came back online with normal service.