AT&T outage cut cell service to thousands in Minnesota and across nation

The disruptions happened from early Thursday morning until midday

Feb 23, 20240

Jenny Kane, Associated Press count

A man uses a cell phone in New Orleans on Aug. 11, 2019. A number of Americans on Thursday dealt with cellular outages on AT&T and its discount carrier, Cricket Wireless. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Thousands of customers in Minnesota and across the country lost cellphone service for several hours during a widespread AT&T outages Thursday morning.

Downdetector - a website that tracks system outages based on customer complaints - showed outages from 3 a.m. till noon affected nearly 75,000 customers of AT&T and its discount carrier, Cricket Wireless.

During the outages, customers could not make or receive calls and texts, and likely lost access to the internet if using data.

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