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70,000 ATT customers are without service across the US (arstechnica.com)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Interestingly last week a UK network provider had a day - 2 day outage across the entire UK by the sounds of it.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh so it's a day ending in Y?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Is AT&T known for having shitty service nationwide or something or is this just a “big company bad durhur” meme? Where I live, they’re easily the best of the big carriers. I’d love to switch to someone else, but they have the best coverage by far and I honestly can’t remember the last time I had a service outage. I despise them as a company, but I can’t complain a bit about their service and I’ve had an account with them since 2001.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I think their cell service is pretty bad. I have their fiber and it's great.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Last time I had a service outage was in 2020, but you can't blame that on AT&T

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Huh was it really that long ago

[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

In the middle. Big telecom companies are shitty and infamous for bad service.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I guess my 23 years of reliable service was just a fluke or something.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Or something

[+] [email protected] -9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

I've had an account with them since 2001.

Oh so your phone habits and data were totally illegally spied on.

Funny how you have been a customer that long and have missed that. AT&T isn't just any old phone company, it is one that facilitates illegal domestic spying on US citizens.

Don't forget they were never prosecuted because the Bush admin granted them retroactive immunity for their part in a warrantless domestic spying program.

AT&T is about as evil as you can get in a phone company.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

All carriers do this. The hilarious part is you pretend you’re protected because you switched providers. What a lol

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Hey assclown, I was asking about their service. I even said I would love to switch to another company for a multitude of reasons, but they are the only provider in my area that provides reliable service. They are literally the only company that has a tower close enough to my work to penetrate the walls and work inside so almost everyone there is forced to have them if they want them or not.

Chill with your condescending holier than thou attitude about what I do and don’t know. I was referring directly to the service, which, all other issues aside, has been absolutely great for me across the period of 23 years and half a dozen different cities of varying sizes.

[+] [email protected] -8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Wow pretty fuckin angry at a valid reason to dislike AT&T. Do you spend all your time online jerking off the companies you already pay money to? You asked for why people don't like them, I gave you a reason. Sorry you think warrantless spying isn't that big of a fucking deal. That was the day I changed providers and never looked back.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

I’m not angry at your valid reason to dislike them, I’m annoyed at you being too stupid to discuss the actual topic that I was asking about.

It must be hard going through life being an absolute moron.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Maybe if you hadn't been a condescending jackass in your first comment, he wouldn't be angry at you. You didn't just give a reason to hate AT&T; you made some unwarranted remarks about what you perceived the OP to think and were speaking down to them.

[+] [email protected] -8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, anyone who still uses AT&T must be oblivious or not care, so I stand by my condescending attitude. Sorry, buddy, go cry about it.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You're not even condescending. You're just painting the picture accurately and he's a sensitive shitty little brat taking it like your personality is even at all relevant. You're being down voted and he's being upvoted.

Lemmy ain't shit better than reddit when all the same jackass dumbasses keep crying about information being given to them on their behalf and benefit. Then they ignore that and cry.

Seriously, keep it up. Some day some one will accept intelligence being delivered and thank you for being educative.

I really wish I wasn't being sarcastic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I asked a question about THE SERVICE and this dumbass responded talking about something completely different. That’s not an accurate picture of the topic at hand, that’s changing the topic and then grabbing a soapbox and preaching things that I already know and wasn’t trying to discuss in the first place. There’s no intelligence being delivered here, which is pretty unfortunate for you because if you’re on his side you could surely use some.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You're right. There's no intelligence speaking knowledge worth acquiring to a dumbass like you.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I mean, feel free to tell me exactly what I’ve said that you think is stupid. I’ve already done you, now it’s your turn.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Btdt. You're so fucking stupid I ain't wasting any more of my time talking to you. By all means, continue running your mouth, sucker.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago

So you can’t give an example. Gotcha. Run along now, dumbfuck.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 8 months ago (2 children)

$20 says BGP misconfig.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

It was BGP

"According to an industry source who spoke on the condition of anonymity, the root of the outage appeared to be related to how cellular services hand off calls from one network to the next, a process known as peering. "

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/22/tech/att-cell-service-outage/index.html

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Another 20 on DNS

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I would have also put 20 down on an expired certificate

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's always DNS.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Yes. Except when it's BGP.

Edit:

It was BGP

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/22/tech/att-cell-service-outage/index.html

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Where's my $20?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago (2 children)

A communication disruption can mean only one thing: INVASION!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh thank god

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Right? Like don't get my hopes up

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I can't wait to hear all the conspiracy theories and references to "Leave the World Behind."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

You didn't react at all differently this time around after having seen it?

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