[Music] at NT has encountered sporadic outages over the past few days including a temporary 911 outage in some parts of the southeastern United States although outages happen from time to time Nationwide prolonged outages are exceedingly rare although at NT provided no official reason for the outage the issue appears to be related to how cellular Services handoff calls from one network to the next a process known as puring according to an IND Source you spoke on the condition of anonymity there's no indication that Thursday's outage was the result of a Cyber attack or other malicious Activity The Industry Source said Verizon believes the Nationwide outage involving AT&T customers is close to being resolv according to Richard young a Verizon spokesperson carriers are notoriously mum about why their networks go down in the past there have been construction accidents that have cut fiber optic cables incidents of sabotage or network updates filled with bugs that became difficult to roll back