2024 United States Cellular Phone Service Outage meme examples.

2024 United States Cellular Phone Service Outage

Updated Feb 22, 2024 at 03:05PM EST by Zach.

Added Feb 22, 2024 at 08:47AM EST by Brandon.

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Overview

The 2024 United States Cellular Phone Service Outage, also known as the 2024 U.S. Phone Network Outage, refers to the February 22nd, 2024, incident in which major United States phone data carriers (including AT&T and Verizon) experienced several widespread outages, causing loss of service to millions in America without warning. The event, disconnecting people from each other amid the service disruption, led to an outpouring of memes and discussion on social media, including company vs. company memes depending on which service was working while the others were down.

Background

Early in the morning on February 22nd, 2024, it was reported that several phone carriers, most notably AT&T, were experiencing mass losses in coverage for unknown reasons. That day, journalist @MarioNewfal[1] posted on X / Twitter about the phone carrier outage reportedly affecting the public's ability to dial 911, with a possible cause allegedly being a cyber attack (shown below).


Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal BREAKING: REPORTS OF MAJOR AT&T OUTAGE IN U.S AT&T is currently experiencing a nationwide outage affecting several major cities. People are not able to even dial 911 "This was confirmed to us by Erie County (NY) 911 who also told us First Net, which is a network that connects first responders, is being affected by this outage." - YourErie The below message was received by a close friend in California. Just a heads up, AT&T's cell service is down in all United States. This is the bigg telecom provider in the USA. TODAY 2:14 pm It will be a big talk tomorrow. This has never happened. People can't even dial 911 2:14 pm Subscribe This is wild. Could be cyber attack 2:15 pm It's starting to spread on X. Figure you'll want to to be ahead of it. 2:15 pm 5:22 AM Feb 22, 2024 502.3K Views ... Edited 2:14 pm ✓/ I had the same issue in Dubai yesterday morning 2:15 pm cell service and electricity went off simultaneously 2:15 pm ✓

Online Reactions

Reactions from the public were quick to appear with people using WiFi provided by companies not affected by the outage to post about their experience on social media. The narrative of it being a possible cyber attack was reinforced by many reacting to the event.

For example, on February 22nd, 2024, X user @Huberton[2] posted a video taken from the website Down Detector showing several services were no longer operational, including Fortnite and for a moment League of Legends (shown below).


With a large number of AT&T phones being stuck in "SOS" mode, users online reported that Verizon had come back up later in the evening, prompting memes to be made about Verizon users being superior to other phone companies.

On February 22nd, X user @DArmstrong44[3] posted a reaction video of rapper and music producer Rick Ross laughing, captioning it as Verizon users looking at the AT&T outage (shown below).


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External References

[1] X – MarioNewfal

[2] X – Huberton

[3] X – DArmstrong44

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