Yes they are in many places. Not all but most. I have seen a few clips of local stations reporting on the solar X6.3 flare as the more likely cause. The timing of that and the subsequent outages seems to coincide time wise.
This was an interesting flare though. Generally a flare that strong would have a stronger positive charged partical aspect to it. This one did not. It was straight up X-ray radiation and that kind of ionization seemed to affect more than the usual HF radio bands.
The real problem that most don’t understand is the very deep interconnection between the internet and all the digital communications that go on both through hard wire and radio as well as digital radio signal but also with satellite connections as well which are also digital connections. The system over all is so complex with such a mix mash of possible connections that when one goes down in one area it will affect many others in other places. So like AT&T was actually hit hard many other service provider customers were complaining when their service was not affected directly they just could not connect to people and places using AT&T. So it seemed to them their service was down.
I had to hit the store today. I went to three different places. Two of those places had lag time with their point-of-sale card readers and the third did not. It was just the luck of the draw that the third one was connected to a local system that was not having problems. The other two were. That is why it seemed to be a bigger problem than it really was. It was short in duration as most services were back up within 3 or so hours after the start of it around 2 - 4 am depending which time zone you are in. By around 10 am east cost time it started clearing up and was settled by noon and been ok ever since.
If it were a cyber attack it would have looked like the end of last week and affect internet connections more than mobile services. It would also like last weekend taken longer to resolve. That was about 36 hours before services started to come back on line. Again not all reporting problems had actual problems in their locations just had problems reaching places that were actually down. Think of it as you are on the road and on your route you come to the road out and have to take a detour. If traffic is light the detour will take a little longer but not much. If the traffic is heavy it will take a lot longer because so many are having to find different routes to get around. That is the internet. When one node goes down all the traffic has to be redirected to go around it. The heavier the traffic the longer it takes. Now most people don’t see it that way so in their mind any problem with slowness they assume is happening with their provider never realizing it may not be the case but the provider of the place they are trying to get to.
We have been hearing slowly at first but more and more now of possible problems with the electrical grid and the internet going down. That is all just a lot of fear porn. The world governments are all jumping on that band wagon as it has proven quite recently to be a good way to gain control of how people behave and how much they will listen to that the government said. They want their people to be afraid because then they are easier to control, fool and be lied to. Of course they will not tell the truth when they can use any situation no matter how benign and short lived it may be. This way they can lie to people and play the false flag on them.
If we consider a car. With all the electronics in them and the sensors used to make adjustments to make them the most fuel efficient, if the engine doesn’t run we don’t know why. It could be out of gas or it could be just some electronic component on some circuit board. The engine probably runs ok but since some sensor is not working it is telling you the car is broken. In the old days if an engine did not run there were only 4 reasons, it was out of gas, it was not getting air to mix with the gas, it was not getting a spark or the engine was froze because it was out of oil or it was never changed. Don’t laugh I knew a guy in college who bought a car and never changed the oil in it. The engine eventually seized up. But these days the possible reasons are many and anyone of the could be a single failed electronic component on some circuit board. So to is the current nature of digital communications. A server could be down, our own device could have gone bad, radio communications to a cell is down because the cell is down, connection goes through a satellite that is having problems, power is out at the destination we are trying to reach. we simply don’t know. That does not mean some bad actors caused it though. It could just be old failed equipment, someone accidentally cut a feed line while digging. It could be a whole host of things but the government will tell you it was a cyber attack because that is the scariest thing they can use. It gives them control when you have to rely on them for help.
Nope it was not a cyber attack. The time length and timing of the problem in association with the solar flare points to a short term radio disruption that spread across the spectrum from more than just HF. X-rays will do that. Try using a cell phone close to an X-ray room in a hospital or clinic and see how much static interference you will here. Or try it next to the microwave when it is running. If it is old and leaks signal you will pick up static. In the old days a car with a bad condensor would interfere with TV reception as it drove down the street. Different frequencies but one affected the other. That is all we saw today.