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Has T-Mobile shut down? Thousands of people reported outages Tuesday afternoon
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Has T-Mobile shut down? Thousands of people reported outages Tuesday afternoon

On Tuesday afternoon, thousands of T-Mobile users suddenly began reporting outages in phone service.

Accordingly outage detector site DowndetectorOutages peaked around 2:30 PM ET, with more than 19,000 users reporting problems. The majority of reports showed that users were not receiving signal.

Another outage tracking site, downforeveryoneorjustme.comIt shows the same trend with hundreds of users reporting service issues. In what could be a cascading effect, Mint Mobile, which also runs on the T-Mobile network, is also experiencing issues. Down Detector reports It exceeded 1,000 at 14:37

T-Mobile isn’t the first mobile provider to experience problems on Tuesday, as Verizon users also experienced outages in the Northeast earlier in the day.

“A network issue early this morning briefly disrupted service for some Verizon Fios customers in the Northeast. “Our engineering teams quickly restarted service as soon as the issue was identified,” Verizon said. Social media post Tuesday afternoon.

USA TODAY could not immediately reach T-Mobile for comment.

Fernando Cervantes Jr. He is USA TODAY’s trending news reporter. Reach him at [email protected] and follow him on X @fern_cerv_.