Phone Outage in US Affects Several Major Communication Companies

Major communication companies operating in the US saw outages on Monday, as users reported dead signals from several regions across the country, according to DownDetector. Among the affected carriers are T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T, with fault reports coming from Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago and several other metropolitan areas in the US.

T-Mobile's president of technology, Neville Ray, confirmed the outages in Twitter, saying that the company's engineers are working to resolve a "voice and data issue" that affected T-Mobile customers across the country.

​Following cell phone carrier outages, popular social networks and messengers such as Instagram, Facebook and Twitch experienced issues as well, shown by DownDetector.

A Verizon spokesperson, however, denied the reports of issues with the carrier, saying that the site "is falsely reporting Verizon network issues" and assumed that it might be a mistake of crowd-sourced data aggregation.

"These types of sites do not evaluate and confirm the crowd-sourced data that they receive, they simply aggregate it and report it. The result can be faulty reports of network performance interruptions causing wide-spread miscommunication for wireless users", a Verizon representative said, cited by ABC 7.

Concerned by the outage, Twitter users reported problems with Wi-Fi as well, while some suggested that the issues may have been caused by a DDoS attack.