Cell service outage spike in US (downdetector.com)

As of right now looks like AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, and many others.

Yeah this is something. They all seem to have started at the same time.

Tinfoil hat theory: government trying to disrupt protests by breaking down communications and disrupting live streams

Does the cell network have a single point of failure which could explain these concurrent outages across carriers? I have a (somewhat crude) mental model of how the internet works, so if this were a nationwide internet outage I would at least have an inkling of whether it was an accidental misconfiguration, bad actor launching an attack, etc. I have no such model for the cell network!

It appears to be only T-Mobile that is down presently (https://twitter.com/NevilleRay/status/1272624569707184128), likely that those making calls to T-Mobile phones are representing outages on their networks.

The DDOS on the Anonymous twitter might be relevant given timing. All happened around an hour ago.

https://twitter.com/YourAnonCentral/status/12726345485771653...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23533311

Its a fiber cut on zayo, fuckin heyyyy-yo: https://tranzact.zayo.com/#!/networkStatus

Just got one of those annoying alerts on my phone. Saying “Loccal cell phone carriers are experiencing outages” and an alternative number for 9-1-1 calls.