AT&T had a massive cell phone outage: here's how to work around one

A temporary outage that hit cellphone networks on Thursday and impacted tens of thousands of Americans left many wondering how they can prepare for outages and find ways to make calls despite their network being down. Outages were initially reported on AT&T's network around 3:30 a.m. ET and progressed from there, with more than 73,000 reports just after 9 a.m. ET, according to Downdetector – a website that tracks reports of service outages. AT&T said Thursday afternoon that it had restored service to all af ...