[EAS] Resolved- Nationwide AT&T Mobility 9-1-1 outage

[Sid Schweiger]

"Maybe I am missing something or perhaps old age is settling in, but since when is a cell phone outage anything other than an inconvenience?

Floods, yes. Tornadoes, yes. Fires, yes. Clouds of locusts, maybe. But not a cell phone outage.

On the other hand, no teenagers live in my house."
 
Yes, you are missing something.  Last stats I saw (from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) said that only 8% of US households had a landline and no cell phones.  47% have cell phones only and 42% have both.  Those stats are just over a year old (December 2015), but the same report stated that a mere 12 years ago, only 3% of US households had cell phones and no landline.