[eob]

Some outlets reporting T-Mobile and ATT as well.

I assume state on state cyber attacks are commonplace but get minimized to avoid public fear.. perhaps this will be the first notable one.

[in0v8r]

The alternative network reports are most likely people trying to call Verizon customers and reporting an outage when they can't get through.

[eob]

You think like a person who’s debugged large systems failures before :). That feels very plausible.

[madcaptenor]

I've seen it happen before - in the big AT&T outage a couple years ago reports came in on downdetector of outages for other providers.

[mosura]

Estonia was the first major NATO victim of such things https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_cyberattacks_on_Estonia

Made worse by the fact Estonia is a more networked society than, for example, the US.

[swsieber]

The down detector site has Verizon outage reports two order of magnitude bigger, so it doesn't seem like a cyber attack to me.

https://downdetector.com/status/t-mobile/ ~ 1,600

https://downdetector.com/status/att/ ~ 1,500

https://downdetector.com/status/verizon/ ~ peaked at ~169k, dropped to 67k

[mrits]

T-Mobile is up and Verizon is down in my house