JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Thursday’s nationwide outage affected thousands of Americans as wireless carriers such as AT&T, Cricket Wireless, Verizon and T-Mobile and other providers scrambled to fix the issue.
Later that afternoon, AT&T announced its wireless service was restored and named a software update as the reason behind the outage.
The nationwide outage had some people in a frenzy since they couldn’t make phone calls, send texts, or basically… use their phones. Some may say it was a wake-up call to remind people how dependent and reliant they are on their wireless telephones.
“People were in a panic yesterday when they couldn’t access their social media or instantaneously communicate with their friends and families. So, it highlighted how we’ve become enslaved to our phones,” Psychologist Dr. Justin Darinezo said.
Others may have remained calm and handled their business the old-fashioned way — on a landline phone.
According to the most recent estimates from the National Center for Health Statistics, about 73% of American adults in 2022 lived in households where there were only wireless phones and no landlines, while another 25% were in households with both. Barely over 1% had only landlines.
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