On 710 WOR, here's Mr. New York, Mark Simone.

Hey, we've got a lot of important things to talk about, from Trump to Biden to Putin to the election to, there's all sorts of important issues, but forget all that. Put all that aside for some. This is the most important thing. This cell phone outage that's taking place all over the

place. 70,000 AT&T customers right now, unable to make calls. It's some sort of nationwide

cell phone outage. It's affecting a lot of people. Now, if you're saying to yourself well i don't have at t and t i don't

have to worry yeah you do because if you have verizon now this is just 70 000 customers right now

but uh verizon t mobile all these other carriers rent bandwidth from at t and t so verizon's affected

first net t mobile a whole list of, so

here's the real scary part. They cannot trace the cause of this. It just happened about 4.30 a.m.

Cell phones started going out all over the place. There's 70,000 of them still out. It affected

even police departments and other things now.

Because they can't identify any cause, some are starting to believe it could have been some sort of cyber attack.

No one knows. But if this was some sort of hack cyber attack, this is scary.

Remember the FBI director and others were warning people about threats like this,

some sort of hack, Chinese, Russian, something, who knows, who knows, some kind of hack into our systems,

our electronics.

But they still haven't gotten it to the bottom of this.

So a lot of cell phone customer.

If you're affected by this and your cell is out, a couple of things you can do.

When there's no cell service, it goes, you'll see this little SOS on the top.

That means that only emergency use, it'll go to a satellite phone.

But if you lose your cell service, if you go into your settings, you can switch the phone over to Wi-Fi calling, and it'll use any Wi-Fi that's around, and it'll work on that just fine.

Some people will have to do a big reset, but this is a problem.

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