Where I am they’re pretty reliable, and have better coverage than Verizon. My company provides a Verizon hotspot for work on the road, but I had to add hotspot to my at&t plan because Verizon leaves me without service too often.
I’m not affected by this outage where I’m at, but my wife at home lost service and had to restart her phone to get it back.
Actually now that I think about it, they’re probably talking about it being unreliable in larger cities. I know I get much slower internet speed whenever I go to any larger cities due to network congestion.
But outside of major population areas they’ve been really good in my experience.
Last time I had anything less then 5G full bars was when I traveled across Europe to the middle of the desert in Portugal, to a festival of 40.000 people. The cell towers there weren’t built for that many people.
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Is AT&T not known for not working in general?
It depends. Every carrier has better or worse spectrum and/or tower coverage depending on where you are.
Where I am they’re pretty reliable, and have better coverage than Verizon. My company provides a Verizon hotspot for work on the road, but I had to add hotspot to my at&t plan because Verizon leaves me without service too often.
I’m not affected by this outage where I’m at, but my wife at home lost service and had to restart her phone to get it back.
I’m not from the US, I only know AT&T from Last Week Tonight where John Oliver made fun of them many many times.
Actually now that I think about it, they’re probably talking about it being unreliable in larger cities. I know I get much slower internet speed whenever I go to any larger cities due to network congestion.
But outside of major population areas they’ve been really good in my experience.
Last time I had anything less then 5G full bars was when I traveled across Europe to the middle of the desert in Portugal, to a festival of 40.000 people. The cell towers there weren’t built for that many people.
First time in 15y I had issues.
A communication disruption can mean only one thing: INVASION!
$20 says BGP misconfig.
Oh so it’s a day ending in Y?