This is on point. I'm Megna Chocro-Bardi and let's say it's a fine February night.

You're thinking you want to make good on that New Year's resolution to be a better friend.

Spend less time on social media, more time making connections, I-R-L. You're going to

talk more with your friends, you're going to call them more. So, you pop in your earbuds,

scroll through those contacts, you hit call, and the conversation is going well. Then, all

of a sudden, outage.

New this morning, T-Mobile users across the US experience service outages overnight. The

cellular tracking website downdetectored.com tracked more than 80,000 outages. Users say

their service changed to SOS mode, meaning they were not directly connected to a network

but could still make emergency calls.

That was from February of this year, when T-Mobile suffered a nationwide cell phone outage,

cutting off service to more than 80,000 customers. Quote, our teams are rapidly addressing a third-party

fiber interruption issue that has intermittently impacted some voice messaging and data services

in several areas. End quote. That was from T-Mobile's president of technology, Neville

Ray, who tweeted after the incident. He added, the situation is improving, and we hope to

have a full resolution very soon. We apologize for any disruption caused. As to what caused

the disruption, no specific cause was identified.

Now we're not picking on T-Mobile alone. We're saying that an SOS call needs to go out

for all of the nation's cell phone networks. Because a quick perusal of local television

reports over the past couple of years easily produces this.

If you're having trouble making calls on your cell phone today, you are not alone. A major

outage is affecting Verizon customers nationwide, mostly here on the West Coast. And this.

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