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AT&T’s Cellular Outage & Florida’s Epstein Bill | Afternoon Update | 2.22.24

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🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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0:00.0

This episode is brought to you by RAMP.

0:02.0

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Just go to RAM.com slash wire today.

0:09.0

I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley. It's Thursday, February 22nd, and

0:19.2

this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.

0:22.4

I can't seem to find a good connection.

0:25.0

AT&T says 75% of its network has been restored

0:30.0

after it experienced a massive cell phone outage this morning.

0:33.2

Tens of thousands of customers were unable to place or receive calls, use the

0:37.8

internet, and in some cases dial 911.

0:40.1

The outage started around 5 a.m. Eastern time and then grew worse at 7 a.m.

0:45.0

AT&T issued a statement acknowledging the problem but have yet to identify the cause.

0:50.0

The telecom giant said, quote,

0:52.0

Some of our customers are experiencing wireless service interruptions this morning.

0:56.0

We are working urgently to restore service to them.

0:59.0

We encourage the use of Wi-Fi calling until services restored.

1:02.0

The city's most affected were

1:04.2

Chicago, LA, Dallas, Atlanta, and Houston. T-Mobile and Verizon say their

1:09.2

networks were not affected. Customers across the nation are reacting to the outage.

1:14.0

I thought it was a blackout, like zombies were coming like, no.

1:17.0

Like I thought it was the end of the world.

1:20.0

I'm trying to meet with a client and I had to leave where I'm coming from because I can't communicate at all.

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