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If you’re an AT&T customer, you’ve likely been affected by the widespread cell outage that left users across the US unable to placecalls, text, or access theInternet.
Though the company provided no official reason for the outage, the issue appears to be related to how cellular services hand off calls from one network to the next, a process known as peering, according toCNN.
While Verizon and T-Mobile customers also reported some network outages, they appeared to be less widespread.
The issue began Thursday (February 22) morning. Roughly 11 hours after reports of the outage first emerged, AT&T informed that it had restored service to all affected customers and “sincerely apologized” for the inconvenience.
The company also added that it’s “taking steps to ensure our customers do not experience this again in the future.”
Below,Bored Pandapresents 32 memes that creatively capture people's reactions to the situation, ranging from despair to humor.
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Verizon Customers Looking Down At The Peasantry
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Lotekguy Lotekguy Community Member Follow
Enjoying their moment while it lasts.
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Y2K Flashbacks
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#3
Cast Away
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TheGoodBoi TheGoodBoi Community Member Follow
LOL unless you had wifi
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#4
Service Credit
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Kylie Kylie Community Member Follow
I use cricket which apparently runs on AT&T as my service was out for hours early Thursday, so I'd like that credit as well.
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#5
Boomers Had A Plan All Along
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They were born for this moment
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#6
Going Back In Time To The 90s
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Lunaofthenest (She/they) Lunaofthenest (She/they) Community Member Follow
That's trying to get in touch with AT&T anytime, not just during an outage.
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#7
Verizon Girlies
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ninjaTrashPandaBoom ninjaTrashPandaBoom Community Member
Schadenfreude
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#8
A Baseball Teams Joins In On The Fun
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Upstaged75 Upstaged75 Community Member Follow
Is that supposed to be prison ketchup?
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#9
Duolingo Strikes Again
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spicy (she/he/they) spicy (she/he/they) Community Member Follow
pfft—
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#10
Final Texts
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Lunaofthenest (She/they) Lunaofthenest (She/they) Community Member Follow
May the odds be never in our favor.
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#11
Six Hours Can Be A Long Time Not To See Insta Stories
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I was so busy at work, I didn't even notice.
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#12
No Internet = End Of The World
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Lotekguy Lotekguy Community Member Follow
How long was it before MAGA users started blaming Biden?
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Completely Clueless
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Lotekguy Lotekguy Community Member Follow
Looks like it shorted out when some skinny dude relieved himself on the equipment.
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#14
Scrolling Down Your Social Media Feed As The World Burns
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#15
AT&T Users Right Now:
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#16
There’s Always A Fitting Scene From The Office
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TheGoodBoi TheGoodBoi Community Member Follow
I read people were calling law enforcement to see if it works lol. Don't do that people.
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#17
Internet Withdrawal
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Lunaofthenest (She/they) Lunaofthenest (She/they) Community Member Follow
This is why you always have a book & a few episodes of something downloaded! It is wild how fast we all start acting like we're detoxing off hard drugs the minute the internet goes down- myself included.
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#18
Tracfone Users Saw It Coming
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#19
Some Thought They Forgot To Pay Their Bills
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Kylie Kylie Community Member Follow
When there's no service, it's usually one of the first things you check isn't it? Even if you have autopay. Luckily I was at work so I still had wifi = )
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An Unexpected MVP
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#21
A New Page Written In Social Media History Books
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Geoffrey Scott Geoffrey Scott Community Member Follow
And the Cons. Cellu. users that use ATT towers?
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#22
Leaving The World Behind
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Lotekguy Lotekguy Community Member Follow
...but still collecting its money.
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#23
Do You Have AT&T?
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#24
Confused Screaming
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#25
The Good Old Days Of Cingular
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I heart Boo-BI-es I heart Boo-BI-es Community Member Follow
TB to the days of Cingular wireless and Cellular One...
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#26
Not An Expert
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#27
IT Workers’ Favorite Line
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#28
Kris Jenner Would Never Manage At&t
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Michael None Michael None Community Member Follow
I see a Kardashian I downvote. Let's flush these turds already.
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#29
A Gold Mine For Conspiracy Theorists
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#30
A Celebration After The Tragedy
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#31
Flocking To X (Twitter)
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#32
There’s No Escaping Zoom Meetings
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Austin Sauce Austin Sauce Community Member Follow
I have AT&T and was on wifi so I didn’t even notice. I found out later in the day and was like “ooh sucks to have AT&T. Wait… I have AT&T!”
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Remember when memes were funny?
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J He/Him/They/Them/We/Us/I/Me J He/Him/They/Them/We/Us/I/Me Community Member Follow
i have ✨starlink✨ soooooo
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I have AT&T and was on wifi so I didn’t even notice. I found out later in the day and was like “ooh sucks to have AT&T. Wait… I have AT&T!”
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Remember when memes were funny?
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i have ✨starlink✨ soooooo
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