New updates are being added at the bottom of this story…….
Original story (published on December 26, 2020) follows:
T-Mobile has suffered an outage in all of Tennessee following the Christmas morning blast at Nashville. The carrier is not the sole victim though as its downtime means that Sprint and Mint Mobile are affected as well.
This is because Mint Mobile makes use of T-Mobile cell phone towers, and due to the fact that Sprint was recently merged into T-Mobile with the latter emerging as the surviving brand.
And the matter is evident from a Mint Mobile support agent as shown below.
And following the incident, social media is abuzz with affected users lamenting that they are unable to make calls or make use of any cellular service for that matter.
The explosion apparently occurred near an AT&T tower which has resulted in AT&T being the worst affected among the bunch with a massive service disruption that has lasted for over 10 hours and is still ongoing at the time of this piece’s writing.
What’s odd here is the fact that for some reason, T-Mobile and Mint have been affected by the outage as well. A Redditor has given a possible explanation for this though.
But while the Mint Mobile support agent does seem to imply that the outage has affected the entire state of Tenessee, there are a few reports that indicate otherwise.
Moreover, unlike AT&T which was quick to acknowledge the matter, there hasn’t been any official statement by T-Mobile or Mint as of yet, although the number of affected users seems plentiful.
This is apparent from a large number of reports on T-Mobile down detector. Look for yourself from this link.
Anyways, as stated by AT&T, the carrier is diligently working to restore services as early as possible, and if the T-Mobile/Mint and AT&T outages are truly linked, users can expect a service restoration soon enough.
With that being said, we will continue to track the T-Mobile/Mint outage for further developments and update the article accordingly. For now, be sure to let us know in the comments below about your experience.
Update 1 (November 09)
12:16 pm (IST): It seems all major telecom companies in the US including AT&T and Verizon are undergoing a widespread outage and T-Mobile is no exception.
Many users have taken to Twitter to report that T-Mobile services are down and not working.
We’re also seeing a spike in outage reports on Downdetector too.
06:19 pm (IST): It appears that things have come back to normal for T-Mobile customers in the Bay area following the outage earlier today.
Update 3 (November 30)
11:16 am (IST): AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon subscribers now report an outage that is causing them not to be able to call each other. This is slowly being resolved.
Update 4 (January 18, 2022)
01:20 pm (IST): There seems to have been a sudden spike in the number of reports indicating an outage with T-Mobile on Downdetector.
The magenta carrier is yet to acknowledge any outage or downtime in any area.
Update 5 (September 9, 2022)
06:30 pm (IST): Many T-Mobile customers have been left fuming as they aren’t able to pre-order the new iPhone 14 models.
Of course, this isn’t the first time this has happened due to the pre-orders opening for the new iPhones. That said, it’s likely that the website should be back up and running in short while.
11:30 pm (IST): The issue appears to have been resolved.
Update 6 (September 20, 2022)
01:52 pm (IST): According to fresh reports on Twitter and Downdetector, T-Mobile is currently down or not working for many.
Update 7 (September 21, 2022)
07:30 pm (IST): According to reports on Downdetector, the recent outage with T-Mobile has now been resolved.
Update 8 (October 10, 2022)
09:15 am (IST): Many T-Mobile users have taken to Twitter to report that they aren’t able to access some services of the company such as the app. Users claim they can’t get into their account or even contact support in some cases.
Update 9 (October 11, 2022)
05:00 pm (IST): It appears that the recent outage has been resolved as we haven’t come across many fresh reports.
Update 10 (October 28, 2022)
11:45 am (IST): Fresh reports on Twitter and Downdetector suggest that T-Mobile users are currently experiencing some issues with the service.
Update 11 (November 14, 2022)
12:45 pm (IST): Recent reports on Downdetector indicate that T-Mobile users are once again experiencing issues with the service.
07:06 pm (IST): The recent outage with T-Mobile appears to have been resolved as we haven’t come across any fresh reports.
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