Powerful twin solar flares erupt from sun as cell phone outages spike across US (video)

[Admin]

Tens of thousands of outages were reported by major cellular carriers throughout the United States after a pair of powerful solar flares erupted from the sun on Feb. 21 and Feb. 22.

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[ntropic]

X-Class Solar Flares sound cool. However, the article says no CME. But, if such were the cause of AT&T’s outage you would also expect higher numbers of outages with Verizon, T-Mobile, etc. as well as radio and digital TV outages, Internet outages, etc. This seems more like a really bad system wide system update/patch or a hack by some really advanced script kiddies or a State Actor.. Correlation does not mean Causation.

 

[Helio]

Perhaps AT&T failed to take precautionary steps. It was stated at Spaceweathe.com that the lack of CMEs would minimize the impact.

 

[suliolar]

Interesting way to spin that title. It was proven that the outages wouldn't have impacted cell service as the flares were directed at the other side of the world. And ATT came out saying it was a bad software update.

 

[Helio]

Interesting way to spin that title. It was proven that the outages wouldn't have impacted cell service as the flares were directed at the other side of the world. And ATT came out saying it was a bad software update.

I would have guessed other services would have also suffered if theses flares were the problem.

There was comms outage below 30 MHz reported, but only around Hawaii, apparently.

A 3rd flare was a whopping X6.2, and the sunspot group is moving to a place that coul greatly impact us.