an area-wide outage for both T-Mobile and Optimum cellular customers comes after a line of severe thunderstorms this morning according to downedetector.com a massive outage spiked right before 9 A.M on Thursday morning a News Press now reporter spoke with a local Optimum employee who confirmed the outage via their contracted service with T-Mobile and other employees said they expected to have service restored by Friday morning the heart of the outage appears to be west of the Belt Highway and into Doniphan County Kansas News Press now is still working to gather more details and our we're awaiting response from T-Mobile