America got a taste of life without cell phones and we didn't like it lots of AT&T customers were in full blown Panic for 11 long hours AT&T cell phone service was disrupted in major cities Across America and Chaos isn't the word to describe what that meant for the thousands of people and businesses and an entire culture that has come to rely on cell phones for pretty much everything it was a chill echo of the Julia Roberts Netflix movie Leave the World Behind about a catastrophic Cyber attack on the US but this was no Cyber attack AT&T says the outage was due to an incorrect process as we were expanding our network not a Cyber attack in San Francisco the fire department told people if you could not get through to 911 please try calling from a landline what should you do next time cell phone service is disrup rupted Tech expert Steve Greenberg says couples should consider using two different carriers even if it's more expensive if you and your spouse for example are on different phone services well you just use your spouse's phone if it's really an emergency uh other than that the other choice is using Wi-Fi so if you have an app like WhatsApp you can then go on Wi-Fi and make a call that way those are your only options these days only about 25% of homes still have landline phones The Daily Show says we may need them after all well well well guess the landline isn't so useless anymore is it now if you'll excuse me I'm getting a call it's a [Music] telemarketer