The Associated Press stated that major cellular providers like AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile reported tens of thousands of outages.
In the past few days, AT&T has faced sporadic outages, including a temporary 911 disruption in some parts of the southeastern United States. While outages occur occasionally, widespread and prolonged ones nationwide are extremely uncommon, CNN reported.

Solar flare unlikely cause of AT&T outages, expert suggests

Ryan French from the National Solar Observatory posted on X that the solar flare and the AT&T network problem are probably not connected.