AT&T’s TV and internet service is down in Texas because of a fire

AT&T customers around the US are experiencing service outages after a fire in one of the telecom company’s facilities in the Dallas area. The company’s customer service account has been responding to customers’ complaints but hasn’t yet offered a timeline for a fix. The blanket statement just references the fire. Service appears to have been down for hours and is affecting AT&T U-verse, which provides internet and TV. Cell phone service isn’t affected. Although most of the complaints seem to be coming from Texas, Down Detector suggests that service might be down in other parts of the US, too, like Seattle and Portland. An AT&T spokesperson says these are unrelated, however. Damage caused by a fire at one of our facilities may be... Continue reading…