On: Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Ve...

[wizerdrobe]

Anecdotally, I woke up to no signal / “SOS” mode on my iPhone this morning at around 0600 and had service restored around 0830 in South Carolina. However, a coworker in Memphis confirmed he was still out of service at 1000 so it’s regional restoration.

[Scoundreller → wizerdrobe]

I always wonder instead of a regional restoration, if they would “disable” segments of SIMs/accounts randomly to avoid lightning strike (it’s not a DDoS…) their network as they turn things back on. Depends on what the recovery method is, but could be problematic to turn everything back on at once.

[fragmede → Scoundreller]

I've heard that called the thundering herd problem.

[wizerdrobe → Scoundreller]

I actually spoke with my wife after the initial comment, she was reconnected at a later time than I! So it’s not regional but some other mechanism.

[zackkitzmiller → Scoundreller]

I've never heard lightning strike, always thundering herd.

[chasd00 → wizerdrobe]

my wife's phone was SOS when she woke up at about 6AM central and finally become operational around 1:30PM central.