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Americans Abroad Cut Off As AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile Suffer International Roaming Outages


Many American subscribers are unable to use their phones overseas because all three major U.S. carriers are experiencing outages. According to The Register, the outages have been ongoing for several hours and stem from third-party communications technology company Syniverse. From the report: "Since...

""We're one of several providers impacted by a third-party vendor's issue that is intermittently affecting some international roaming service," T-Mo told us. Likewise, Verizon said, "An international third party communications provider is having issues with making voice and data connections with US based customers traveling overseas." "70 percent of calls and data connections are going through at this time," the carrier firm told The Register in the past hour or so.

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