Considering the “thousands” number is just people self-reporting their outages on a random website, I can assure you the real number is in the millions. Just wait until the west coast is fully awake. Cell providers arent even acknowledging the outages.
@phillewis.bsky.socialU.S. cellular outage hits thousands of AT&T users
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U.S. cellular outage hits thousands of AT&T users
Large swathes of the U.S. were hit by a cellular outage early on Thursday, disrupting services offered by telecom firms including AT&T.