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00:02 A cellular outage early on Thursday hit thousands of AT&T users in the United States.
00:07 About 70,000 outage incidents were reported around 10 a.m. Eastern time according to
00:11 Dow Detector. The outage disrupted calls, texts, and emergency services in major cities
00:15 like San Francisco. The cause was unclear, but AT&T said it was working to restore service.
00:20 Some 911 calls couldn't go through due to the outage, according to officials.
00:23 Verizon and T-Mobile reported a few thousand outages each, likely from calls to other networks.
00:28 AT&T shares fell around 2 percent following the reports of service disruptions.
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