Just before 8:30 Thursday morning, Alert Montgomery issued the following message via text:
Alert Montgomery – Cellular Service Outages
There are reports of cascading cellular service outages among major telecommunication provider such as: AT&T, Consumer Cellular, T-Mobile, US Cellular, and Verizon. The reported outage has also affected FirstNet. If you need to contact 9-1-1 for emergency services, please utilize a landline. Text to 9-1-1 is not impacted.
Outages have been reported by major news organizations in many geographic areas of the United States.
There are reports of cascading cellular service outages among major telecommunication provider such as: AT&T, Consumer Cellular, T-Mobile, US Cellular, Verizon & FirstNet. If you need to contact 9-1-1 for emergency services, please use a landline. Text to 9-1-1 is not impacted. pic.twitter.com/XiGOmFhvpX
— Montgomery Co OEMHS (@ReadyMontgomery) February 22, 2024
Updates to follow.
