AT&T will credit impacted subscribers for Thursday’s outage
AT&T said on Saturday, that it would give impacted customers credit for the average cost of a full day of wireless service. A company spokesman said, “We recognize the frustration this outage has caused and know we let many of our customers down,” the company said. “We’re also taking steps to prevent this from happening again in the future.”
Several U.S. agencies are investigating the incident including the FCC and the the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). The wireless provider has said that it does not believe that the outage was caused by a cyber attack.
Back in 2021, regulators reached a $19.5 million settlement with T-Mobile over an outage that lasted over 12 hours in June 2020 and resulted in more than 20,000 failed calls to 911. The FCC figured out that during that outage, over 250 million calls made to T-Mobile subscribers failed and 41% of the calls that used T-Mobile‘s network during the outage failed to connect successfully.