Mystery behind AT&T outage solved?

Rick Patrick ECB Publishing, Inc. Some may have speculated about some nefarious plot or solar flares to be the reason for the outage that affected thousands of AT&T customers on Thursday, Feb. 22. Many customers, including some in Jefferson County woke up that morning to discover they could not make calls or access the internet over their phones. According to the AT&T website, wireless services had been restored to all affected customers by 3:10 p.m., local time. It is estimated that approximately 70,000 customers were affected by the outage. According to the AT&T website, the outage was due to an error made while expanding the network. “Based on our initial review, we be