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Sr Dir. Detect & Response| Nonprofit Founder and CEO | Content Creator | Conference Organizer | No longer a CISSP

it is important to get facts correct. the entire wireless phone infrastructure was NOT offline. just a pretty big portion of it namely att. it does impact other infras because of the amount of cross network comms that happen over cellular, but it is far from the ENTIRE wireless phone infrastructure. the data in the chart is extremely misleading. the lines' scales are not equal at all, but drawncas if they were. the line for att is in the tens of thousands. the lines for everyone else is hundreds at most. these were self reported issues meaning likely tmobile and verizon customers reporting they cant connect to an att contact. unfortunately the news didnt get this story correct either at first. the ones who jumped on it at 4am est were thirsty for those clicks and didnt do enough to make sure they had the facts right. now entire news cycles will go by and people will still think all phones stopped working today. misinformation isnt usually deliberate by the person speaking it, but it is still something to be on the lookout for. better information means better decisions means better outcomes.

Matthew Diebolt, MA - Management and Leadership

HR Business Partner - Toyota Material Handling

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To your point, I'm on Verizon and have been using my phone all day for calls and as a mobile hotspot off and on, and I've had no issues since I started at 6:00 a.m. this morning.

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