If you live in the US and you didn't get that call or text you were expecting today, it may not be your fault. AT&T, and possibly the other two major carriers in the US – T-Mobile and Verizon – experienced on Thursday an hours-long outage that, as of this writing, is ongoing (but may be quickly winding down).
And by outage, we mean no cell service at all for tens of thousands of customers, mostly AT&T ones, in multiple states. I learned about it early this morning via a text from a television news network. The producer asked if I'd heard about this big network outage. I hadn't, and joked that apparently Verizon wasn't affected because, well, we were talking and texting on their network.
