Outage Crisis: Emergency Calls Disrupted Across the U.S | AT&T | Digital Magazine

early on Thursday thousands of AT&T users across the United States found themselves caught off from the world unable to make calls or send texts but more critically the outage disrupted access to Emergency Services leaving major cities such as San Francisco in a precarious [Music] situation the outage is Onset was around 4:00 a.m. eastern time peing with 74,000 incidents by 8:30 a.m. according to downdetector.com [Music] the out's most alarming impact was on emergency service serves in cities like San Francisco AT&T customers found themselves unable to doubt 911 a critical Lifeline in [Music] emergencies AT&T responded to the crisis stating that 34 of the network had been restored by late morning and efforts were ongoing to fully recover services the outage didn't just disrupt lives it also shook investor confidence with AT&T shares falling about 2% in the wake of the incident this incident questions the resilience of our digital infrastructure and the protection of critical communication particularly for emergency Services as we rely more on digital communication incidents like the AT&T outage reminds us of the importance of network reliability and emergency preparedness for more insights into how technology shapes our world subscribe and hit the notification Bell share your thoughts in the comments below and if you found this video insightful don't forget to like share and subscribe for more deep dives into the business world