Americans reporting nationwide cellular outages from AT&T, Cricket Wireless and other providers. AT&T had more than 73,000 outages around 9:30 am ET, in locations including Houston, Atlanta and Chicago.
Some iPhone users have seen SOS messages displayed in the status bar on their cellphones. So far, no reason has been given for the outages, but a professor believes the most likely cause is a cloud misconfiguration, or human error.. A number of Americans are dealing with cellular. outages on AT&t, Cricket. Wireless, Verizon, T-Mobile and other service providers.