**UPDATE** AT&T says all systems are now currently back online. FCC’s Department of Homeland Security to investigate mass outage.
Tens of thousands of AT&T customers have been reported outages this morning for their home phone, internet and mobile phone services, according to Downdetector.
The outages started popping up just before 3:30 a.m. Eastern Time, according to a graph shown on the website that tracks outages. As of 12:45 p.m., the number of reports has declined drastically to nearly 18,000 after spiking at more than 73,000 just after 9 a.m. ET.
Earler this afternoon ATT said it had restored 75% of services.
Most users that are still impacted, 51%, say they are having issues with mobile phone services, More than a third of customers reporting being affected say they have no signal at all, and 8% of users say their mobile internet is down.
Many people in the WBON=TV viewing area are also experiencing issues. This led local police and emergency agencies to issue local guidelines on how to get through to 911 & communicate in the event of an emergency.
No word on the cause of the disruption has been given at this time. We will have the latest on this story today on our LIVE@FIVE newscast.
