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Americans reporting nationwide cellular outages from AT&T, Cricket Wireless and other providers
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AT&T’s outages, which began at approximately 3:30 a.m. ET, peaked at around 73,000 reported incidents. Some iPhone users have seen SOS messages displayed in the status bar on their cellphones