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Major cell phone carriers hit with widespread outage as customers report trouble making calls

Several major wireless carriers dealt with outages Monday afternoon in several parts of the country, according to DownDetector.
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WASHINGTON — T-Mobile said early Tuesday that all voice and text services have been restored after an outage impacted its wireless customers around the country. 

DownDetector, which tracks user-submitted outage reports, had received more than 100,000 reports from T-Mobile customers by 3 p.m. eastern on Monday.

Neville Ray, T-Mobile's President of Technology, said on Monday that engineers were "working to resolve a voice and data issue that has been affecting customers around the country. We’re sorry for the inconvenience and hope to have this fixed shortly." 

The hardest-hit areas appeared to be parts of the East Coast, according to DownDetector's outage map.

Around 1 a.m. eastern on Tuesday, Neville Ray tweeted again saying that all services have been restored.

"We again apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your patience," T-Moblie said in a statement.

A number of other wireless carriers appeared to be experiencing outages on Monday afternoon as well, but on a much smaller scale, according to DownDetector. 

DownDetector had reports from Verizon, Sprint, AT&T and US Cellular customers about their issues too. However, each of those carriers had only a few thousand outage reports compared to the tens of thousands of reports related to T-Mobile.

In a statement, Verizon said its network is "performing well" and accused DownDetector of "falsely reporting Verizon network issues." 

"These types of sites do not evaluate and confirm the crowd-sourced data that they receive, they simply aggregate it and report it. The result can be faulty reports of network performance interruptions causing wide-spread miscommunication for wireless users," Verizon said in a statement. 

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