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AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile US are today experiencing international roaming outages, leaving at least some American subscribers unable to use their phones as they expect while overseas. In statements to The Register, AT&T, T-Mo, and Verizon all said their international roaming connectivity is suffering due to issues with a …

  1. Throatwarbler Mangrove Silver badge
    IT Angle

    BGP?

    Or DNS?

    It must be one of those!

    1. IGotOut Silver badge

      Re: BGP?

      Or these days "AI"

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: BGP?

        No, it was the Russian Bogeyman /s

        1. Snake Silver badge
          Big Brother

          Re: BGP?

          Or a Deep State conspiracy to silence those who oppose tyranny!! [/s]

        2. Anonymous Coward
          Anonymous Coward

          Re: BGP?

          Pah, it was obviously a Chinese State Actor[1] at work.

          [1] also very good at Opera, some circus skills, and, yes, does perform well in Noh even though it was culturally offensive of you to just assume that.

      2. Tom 38

        Re: BGP?

        AI BGP?

    2. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: BGP?

      no, it is NSA: too many people at that organization being on holidays at the same time, so not enough left to listen to all phone calls from US people abroad...

  2. Antron Argaiv Silver badge
    Childcatcher

    Wikipedia says owned by a PE company, The Carlyle Group.

    Is there anything PE can't f*ck up?

    1. Stoic Skeptic

      Syniverse was f*ed up way before Carlyle got there.

  3. glennsills

    Hope they had Signal.

  4. Henry Wertz 1 Gold badge

    They'll want it up quick!

    They'll certainly want it up quick! Those international roaming rates are insane. Like $2-3 a minute, some rate per KB that is so high you'd assume it was per GB. And I think it's like $10 a day (through Verizon at least) to get some 'free' data, texts, and voice minutes. Which they'll probably provide refunds for the day even for a few hour outage. They're probably losing TONS of money by the second,

  5. diver_dave

    Currently..

    In the USA.

    Lost connectivity Wednesday morning, EE UK cannot give a timeline for resolution and advise rebooting phone every hour.

    However, they refunded the roaming package on the spot.

    Been err... Problematical as we've hired an RV with problems and the repair guys had my number!

    1. Strahd Ivarius Silver badge
      Coat

      Re: Currently..

      So you lost connectivity after giving your number to a random repair guy?

      No wonder then...

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